From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 28 14:10:31 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4BEC16A42F for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:10:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from opusnet.com (mail.opusnet.com [209.210.200.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E8E44409 for ; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:10:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: from localhost.localhost [70.98.246.232] by opusnet.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A755255700C4; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:10:29 -0700 Received: from localhost.localhost (localhost.localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6SEBRet070283; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:11:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localhost (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j6SEBH0d070280; Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:11:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garys@opusnet.com) To: vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it References: <42DC14FE0003EB30@ims1d.cp.tin.it> From: garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:11:17 -0700 In-Reply-To: <42DC14FE0003EB30@ims1d.cp.tin.it> (vdm fbsd's message of "Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:16:08 +0200") Message-ID: <8noe8nvx4q.e8n@mail.opusnet.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with booting & MBR X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:10:31 -0000 vdm.fbsd@virgilio.it writes: > # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# > /dev/ad1s2b none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/ad1s2a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/ad0s1a /usr/local ufs rw 0 0 > /dev/ad0s1d /var ufs rw 0 0 > /dev/ad0s1e /tmp ufs rw 0 0 > /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 > > Now, even though I read the booting procedure in the handbook and somewhere > else in the internet, issuing the various "fdisk -b B", "disklabel -b ..", > "boot0cfg ..", I was completely unable to modify the MBR and make this FreeBSD > only computer boot directly into this OS. If you're sticking to FreeBSD's boot0 MBR, you'll have to put one on each disk. I don't know if boot0 can remember "F5" as the default choice for auto-booting or not. But one way or another the first disk's boot0 needs to use "F5" to start the second disk's MBR/boot0 which needs to use "F2" by hand or from boot0cfg config. You could also use grub or lilo to do it too, but it's harder to set up. > P.S. Is it possible that some problems can arise by the fact that I used > an "a" slice (ad0s1a)for mounting /usr/local and freebsd starts from ad1s1a? Only the "easy-to-fix" problems that you're having.