Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:07:12 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to boot from a slice other than "a"? Message-ID: <20060112140418.A53786@wolf.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <20060112225638.J1494@chylonia.3miasto.net> References: <20060112134825.Q53590@wolf.pjkh.com> <20060112225638.J1494@chylonia.3miasto.net>
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>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on >> /dev/da0s1a 248M 180M 48M 79% / >> /dev/da0s1h 14G 496M 13G 4% /mnt >> >> /dev/da0s1h has an exact copy of /dev/da0s1a using dump/restore. >> >> I want to configure things so that the next time I reboot it will >> automatically boot from /dev/da0s1h without me having to do anything (since >> it's remote I can't interrupt the boot process). >> >> I know I need to modify fstab on da0s1h. And if I was on the console I'd >> interrupt the boot process and type in 0:da(0,h)/boot/loader, but I'm not. > > are you actually interested of running /boot/loader from partition h or > mounting root at /dev/da0s1h Hmm... guess I didn't realize there was a difference :) I want the OS to "run" from /dev/da0s1h so that I can then completely wipe and replace /dev/da0s1a [1]. > if second - add: > > vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:da0s1h" to which file? Thanks! -philip [1] The box is a new 5.3 install. My thought was to boot from da0s1h, buildworld/kernel for 6 with a DESTDIR pointing to the original / (da0s1a). Then reboot and have a clean install of 6.
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