On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 10:25:54AM -0600, Peter Steele wrote: > I've asked this on the -questions list but haven't had any feedback. I have a > system configured with multiple identical drives each loaded with FreeBSD. > When I was using MBR partitioning, I could create a boot.config to force the > system to boot from a specific drive. For example, if I wanted to boot from > the second drive, I'd create a boot.config with: > > > > 1:ad(1,a)/boot/loader > > > > We've switched to GPT partitioning and I can't seem to find a way to do this > same trick. The boot loader only seems to recognize MBR partitions when it > comes to this feature. I looked at the boot.c source code and there doesn't > seem to be anything specifically related to GPT partitioning. I cannot for > example say something like: > > > > 1:ad(1,p3)/boot/loader > > > > where p3 is the root partition in my GPT partitioned drives. So I'm puzzled: > If I have a two drive system with BSD loaded on both drives and the drives > are configured with GPT partitions, how can I force the system to boot from > the second drive using boot.config? >
I use: ad(0p3)/boot/loader John -- John Hay -- j...@meraka.csir.co.za / j...@freebsd.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
