Changing boot partition

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

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Nuno Gonçalves wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I Have a FreeBSD booting ok. It?s FSTAB is like this:
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> #Device        MountPoint     FStype           Options
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> /dev/ad1s1b   none             swap             sw
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> /dev/ad1s1a   /                  ufs               rw
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> /dev/acd0      /cdrom          cd9660          ro,noauto
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> /dev/ad1s2d   /backup         ufs               rw
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> 
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> When I boot the machine the boot manager shows me F1 and F2 to boot for.
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> F1 brings me /dev/ad1s1a OK
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> Still I want the machine to boot to /dev/ad1s2d
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> This partition has a backup from another FreeBSD which I want to boot.
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> 
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> To accomplish this, I need only to change FSTAB ?
>
> What changes should I do ? changing /dev/ad1s2d to /dev/ad1s2a ? I read
that
> a means boot root partition
>
> 
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> I tried to change FSTAB to
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> #Device        MountPoint     FStype           Options
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> /dev/ad1s1b   none             swap             sw
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> #/dev/ad1s1a /                  ufs               rw
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> /dev/acd0      /cdrom          cd9660          ro,noauto
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> /dev/ad1s2a   /backup         ufs               rw
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> 
>
> And it hanged when I pressed F1 (could not mount the root partition :P )
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> 
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> Could you guys give any hint ?
>
> Sorry about this questions but I am a newbie to FreeBSD

I forget the exact semantics but do a search for "installing freebsd
in a usb stick" on google the reason for referring to this site is it
shows how to duplicate what sysinstall does from the command line

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Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems
http://www.flosoft-systems.com
Developer, not business, friendly
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