Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:05:47 -0800 From: "David Schultz" <vvortex1@home.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Fun with slices and partitions Message-ID: <002301c07f79$fd668a60$0100a8c0@mshome.net>
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Hi everyone, I just did a bit of rearranging of my partitions to get my FreeBSD slice from one end of a drive to another. I did this by creating another slice on the other end of the drive, partitioning it, and slowly migrating all of the original /usr, /, and /var slices to the new drive with dumpfs piped to restore. My /etc/fstab has been updated accordingly, but I have a bit of a problem. When I boot, boot2 can't find the root partition and dumps me at an unhelpful prompt that isn't documented very well in the manual. My root partition is currently ad1s1e, whereas it used to be ad1s3a. However, ad1s3 does not exist anymore. Of course I can boot by typing 'ad(1,e)' at the boot2 prompt, but it is necessary for this machine to be able to boot without user intervention. Does anyone know how I can get boot2 to find ad1s1e automatically or fix the disk labels so boot2 can find it where it is? So far, I've tried using disklabel to relabel partition e to a. Of course this fails because root is always mounted. Hmm... boot floppy? Please let me know if you have any suggestions, and thanks in advance. Regards, David Schultz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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