Boot device question

I have a server with 6 hot-swap SATA slots. It was delivered with the first slot empty and 5 drives set up as /dev/ad4 through /dev/ad12. I'd never paid attention to this until I wanted to add a 6th, now 4 years later. When I popped it in, I realized the empty bay was not 6 but rather bay 1, and

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Pratt wrote: I have a server with 6 hot-swap SATA slots. It was delivered with the first slot empty and 5 drives set up as /dev/ad4 through /dev/ad12. I'd never paid attention to this until I wanted to add a 6th, now 4 years later. When I

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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:12:38AM -0700, Chris Pratt wrote: I have a server with 6 hot-swap SATA slots. It was delivered with the first slot empty and 5 drives set up as /dev/ad4 through /dev/ad12. I'd never paid attention to this until I wanted to add a 6th, now 4 years later. When I popped

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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:42:26AM -0500, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Pratt wrote: I have a server with 6 hot-swap SATA slots. It was delivered with the first slot empty and 5 drives set up as /dev/ad4 through /dev/ad12. I'd never paid

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On Oct 23, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:12:38AM -0700, Chris Pratt wrote: I have a server with 6 hot-swap SATA slots. It was delivered ... I was thinking a right approach would be to change fstab to reference ad2 for all the system disk file systems,

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-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: AFAIK, at/target/unit are hint commands only available to da(4), at least that's what I see from the source code. I see no such support for ad(4), so I do not think this will work for him. Also, I'll remind people once

Boot Device Question

Hi all, Just got done installing FreeBSD 5.4 on a Compaq DL380. The issue I am having is that when the server reboots, it tries device ad(0,a) and fails. This is because the root partition is on ad(1,a). How do I tell FreeBSD to use ad(1,a) instead of ad(0,a)? Tim

Re: Boot Device Question

Timothy Radigan wrote: Hi all, Just got done installing FreeBSD 5.4 on a Compaq DL380. The issue I am having is that when the server reboots, it tries device ad(0,a) and fails. This is because the root partition is on ad(1,a). How do I tell FreeBSD to use ad(1,a) instead of ad(0,a)? Put a