How to boot from a slice other than "a"?
Wojciech Puchar
wojtek at tensor.3miasto.net
Thu Jan 12 13:58:08 PST 2006
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1a 248M 180M 48M 79% /
> /dev/da0s1h 14G 496M 13G 4% /mnt
>
> /dev/da0s1h has an exact copy of /dev/da0s1a using dump/restore.
>
> I want to configure things so that the next time I reboot it will
> automatically boot from /dev/da0s1h without me having to do anything (since
> it's remote I can't interrupt the boot process).
>
> I know I need to modify fstab on da0s1h. And if I was on the console I'd
> interrupt the boot process and type in 0:da(0,h)/boot/loader, but I'm not.
are you actually interested of running /boot/loader from partition h or
mounting root at /dev/da0s1h
if second - add:
vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:da0s1h"
if first - i don't know :)
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