Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 23:29:51 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> To: David Schultz <vvortex1@home.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fun with slices and partitions Message-ID: <20010115232951.K97980@rfx-64-6-211-149.users.reflexco> In-Reply-To: <002301c07f79$fd668a60$0100a8c0@mshome.net>; from vvortex1@home.com on Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:05:47PM -0800 References: <002301c07f79$fd668a60$0100a8c0@mshome.net>
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On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:05:47PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: > 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. man boot > 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. Yes, change your root partition to 'a.' And see boot0cfg(8). -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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