> > Looks OK to me -- you have got backups of anything important on that > disk haven't you? This sort of operation has a high risk of trashing > the drive contents if you don't get things quite right.
Thank you so much Matthew, I just did an ls of the drive on da1. can I assume that the contents of this drive did not get trashed? thanks so much for all your assistance. excellent responses. Happy New Year, - Noah > > Yes, you'll need to set the slice (da1s1) bootable if you want this > as an alternate boot device. That shouldn't affect the default auto > boot process performed by the boot loader, unless you interrupt the boot > process and change the device selection there manually. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 > 1TH UK _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"