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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:25:08 -0600
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From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Martin McCormick <
> martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote:
>
>> Adam Vande More writes:
>> > This seems to be similar to the depenguinator.
>>
>> > Maybe there some approach in there to get you over the hump.
>>
>> It is exactly the right idea. Funny thing, I actually did turn
>> swap off and the image is now sitting there because I thought
>> this might be useful. Is there any way to tell the existing
>> system to boot from /dev/ad0s1b next time? That would solve the
>> problem completely.
>>
>>
> Never tried it but this might work:
>
> bsdlabel -B diskslice
>

Since you need to specify a partition other than a, I think you may need to
use boot.config

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=boot&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.0-RELEASE

-- 
Adam Vande More