Must root be on slice 'a'?

[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 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

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> Leif
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