Re: Must root be on slice 'a'?
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 inaccessible. You can normally tell that there is a previous '/' mounted in the current slice, if any existing partition name ends in an 'a'. 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 different in the kernel: options ROOTDEVNAME=\ufs:da0s2e\ AFAIK it should bee possible to also change the root device in 1st bootstage See man (8) boot -Harry Leif ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: Must root be on slice 'a'?
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 different in the kernel: options ROOTDEVNAME=\ufs:da0s2e\ If the bootloader will not accept 2:ad(2,e), I don't think it matters what I compile into the kernel. AFAIK it should bee possible to also change the root device in 1st bootstage See man (8) boot I used disklabel to rename the slices, so now I have booted from the new root. Leif ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Must root be on slice 'a'?
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 much easier to use slice 'a' for root, and to have that slice labelled 'a' be the first slice in the DOS-style partition. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Must root be on slice 'a'?
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 much easier to use slice 'a' for root, and to have that slice labelled 'a' be the first slice in the DOS-style partition. Just be careful on your terminology. The neither the 'a' nor the 'e' partition is a slice. In your example above, the slice is '3' which has in it a partition called 'e'. You are using the terms backwards. So, it is disk 1, slice 3, partition e above. Otherwise I think the answer is correct. It is overall better to set up your disk so that your root and boot partition is 'a' in whichever slice you boot from. For many things this is the default and there may be some things that just plain assume this. Enjoy, jerry -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
