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Date:      Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:25:29 -0400
From:      Lisa Besko <besko@msu.edu>
To:        Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Swapping boot disks and getting mountroot>
Message-ID:  <489B05D9.7030407@msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <84dead720808061904v398ff7cdieaeca41ed7a8207e@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <4899E3AC.40201@msu.edu> <84dead720808061904v398ff7cdieaeca41ed7a8207e@mail.gmail.com>

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Joseph Koshy wrote:
>> I notice that it finds the device ad4 but then it tries to mount root from
>> /dev/ad6s1a.  I've edited the fstab to have it look for ad4s1a but it still
>> won't boot.  Anyone have any pointers or ideas?
> 
> Have you tried interrupting the boot sequence and setting new
> values for the `rootdev' and `root_disk_unit' loader variables?
> The loader(8) manual page has more information.

No I haven't tried that yet.  Will that get me to a point where I can 
trust it to boot on it's own to the correct disk all the  time?

LB
-- 
Lisa Besko



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