Boot Loader Issue

Doug Hardie bc979 at lafn.org
Mon Jun 24 04:35:27 UTC 2013


On 23 June 2013, at 20:39, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote:
> 
>> I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR.  All went fine till I tried to reboot the system.  It gets to mountroot and dies trying to mount from ufs:/dev/ada0p2.  That won't work.
> 
> The loader should be getting that information from /etc/fstab.  Have the entries there been changed?

That was the problem.  The system used GPT before and I can't believe I forgot to update fstab.  That was a really dumb mistake.  Thanks very much.

> 
>> If I enter ufs:/dev/ada0s1a then the system boots fine and runs.  I need to alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice.  How do I do that?  I couldn't find anything in the handbook on that.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html has some information.
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