Forcing boot to seek for files on other parition then `a'

[Daniel Gerzo]

Ahoj omyl Mike,

Sunday, September 11, 2005, 12:19:20 AM, si odoslal:

> Daniel Gerzo <danger at wilbury.sk> typed:
>>   How to force boot procedure to automatically seek boot images on
>>   other partition then `a', let's say on `e' one.

> If you google the archives at FreeBSD, you'll find that this is a
> PITA, assuming it's possible at all. No particular reason for it, just
> not something anyone has ever wanted to do. Someone may have fixed
> this since the last time I saw it discussed, but I wouldn't bet on it.

> So the fix is to boot on the fixit CDROM, fire up bsdlabel on your
> disk, and change the "e" to an "a", and boot off the a partition.

oh, you know that dedicated boxes doesn't have CD-ROM and FreeBSD ISO
in it, and I don't have a roam KVM available? Also, there's no netboot
server available :/

So maybe I could hack sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c somehow?, but I'm not
a C knowledgeable and it's little bit mess for me.

>         <mike

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Sincerely,
  Daniel Gerzo