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

[Mike Meyer]

In <1494707485.20050911002426 at rulez.sk>, Daniel Gerzo <danger at wilbury.sk> typed:
> 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 :/

Sorry about that - I didn't read your message carefully enough.

> 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.

Well, if you can get the disk someplace where you could install a
recompiled boot loader, then you can use bsdlabel on it.

	<mike
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