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Date:      Sun, 23 Jun 2013 21:35:20 -0700
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Boot Loader Issue
Message-ID:  <28F9349A-834F-41B8-B889-DBDC92A18BFD@lafn.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306232135360.39334@wonkity.com>
References:  <DF35C473-CC17-4A32-9F28-B50F62F6C03A@lafn.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306232135360.39334@wonkity.com>

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On 23 June 2013, at 20:39, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
>=20
>> I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR.  All went fine till I =
tried to reboot the system.  It gets to mountroot and dies trying to =
mount from ufs:/dev/ada0p2.  That won't work.
>=20
> The loader should be getting that information from /etc/fstab.  Have =
the entries there been changed?

That was the problem.  The system used GPT before and I can't believe I =
forgot to update fstab.  That was a really dumb mistake.  Thanks very =
much.

>=20
>> If I enter ufs:/dev/ada0s1a then the system boots fine and runs.  I =
need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice.  How do I =
do that?  I couldn't find anything in the handbook on that.
>=20
> =
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html=
 has some information.
>=20




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