Re: Must root be on slice 'a'?

2003-12-23 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Monday 22 December 2003 17:27, Leif Neland wrote: http://geodsoft.com/howto/dualboot/freebsd.htm writes this:To install a new FreeBSD system, you must create a new '/' file system at a minimum. If you do this in a slice with an existing '/' partition the previous system will become

Re: Must root be on slice 'a'?

2003-12-23 Thread Leif Neland
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: On Monday 22 December 2003 17:27, Leif Neland wrote: Does this imply that I must rename my slices, that I can't boot from /dev/ad1s3e ? Right. Root always must be label a. You don't have to change slices. But you can compile something

Re: Must root be on slice 'a'?

2003-12-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:27 PM +0100 12/22/03, Leif Neland wrote: Does this imply that I must rename my slices, that I can't boot from /dev/ad1s3e ? It is possible to boot from other slices than 'a', but you want to do automatic boot-ups (ie, without needing to type commands into the boot loader), you will find it

Re: Must root be on slice 'a'?

2003-12-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
At 5:27 PM +0100 12/22/03, Leif Neland wrote: Does this imply that I must rename my slices, that I can't boot from /dev/ad1s3e ? It is possible to boot from other slices than 'a', but you want to do automatic boot-ups (ie, without needing to type commands into the boot loader), you