Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 05:24:39 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Filesystems and mounting Message-ID: <3B494017.20936.A8A250@localhost>
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Recently I upgraded a machine by adding a 2nd SCSI HD, partitioning it and copying the files from drive 1 to drive 2. Had various problems with booting, could not find the answers in the handbook, Lehey's book, manpages, source docs, list archives or anywhere else I tried. To wit: 1) What determines what menu boot0 uses? In particular I now have a menu that shows: F1=DOS F2=FreeBSD F3=?? Why the ?? How do I change it? Couldn't get boot0cfg to do anything noticeable. 2) Is it true that Boot2 can only boot the filesystem 'a' from the 1st disk, without manually entering a command line? Since I ended up with my root partition on /dev/da0s2e, the only way I could get it to boot was by manually typing "0:da(0,e)/boot/loader". 3) There seems to be no straightforward way to display a list of existing partitions and/or labels on the disk at boot-time.. ie so I can figure out what to use in an argument to boot2. Is there some command I'm missing? 4) What determines the alphabetic order of disklabels when the disk is moved? It seemed as though when I moved the new disk from SCSI ID 1 (2nd disk) to SCSI ID 0 (1st and only disk) the letters changed.. was this my imagination? (I thought I could just change the disk number in fstab and leave everything else the same.. ie change "da1s2f" to da0s2f", then remove the 1st disk, but the order seemed to change. Then due to item 3, it was catch-22 - couldn't boot and couldn't see which filesystem I needed to boot.. had to use a floppy.) Thanks, Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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