Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:19:11 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Ruben de Groot <mail23@bzerk.org> Cc: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@www.get-linux.org> Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030903111647.D64375-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <20030903161731.GA38375@ei.bzerk.org>
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On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 07:58:35AM -0700, Joshua Oreman typed: > > <SNIP> > > > > Ok; what you have done is made a dump on the root mirror device; great! But > > > how do I now tell FreeBSD to use that "restored" partition as /? Edit > > > /etc/fstab to effect the change for the next boot? I have a nagging > > > suspicion it will then still boot off the old / slice. > > > > Ah, that's right. You have to edit /etc/fstab *AND* tell the kernel. I'm not > > sure exactly what you need to do to boot from a different root device; maybe > > someone will fille me in? > > You'll have to edit /etc/fstab on the mirror root partition. Then you'll > have to tell the BIOS to boot disk1 instead of disk0. If your BIOS doesn't > support this, you're out of luck. You'll have to switch cables then. > If it does, no kernel changes necessary. > > Ruben Never thought about the BIOS but if he installed the FreeBSD Boot Manager on both drives, then all he has to do to boot the second drive is he has to hit the key to select the second drive when the Boot Manager shows up prior to FreeBSD booting. The switching cables or even replacing the original drive with the second drive is really only if the main drive dies or if you wanted to use a different drive like greater capacity, faster, etc or you didn't like the brandname of the drive for some reason. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin
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