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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.whistle.com!usenet From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Any way to reclaim 1st dsk slice for FreeBSD, boot from second? Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 17:02:47 -0700 Organization: Whistle Communications Lines: 22 Message-ID: <32223B27.15FB7483@whistle.com> References: <3221E19F.2EDB@american.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: s205m22.whistle.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: josh@american.com Josh Littlefield wrote: > I made the apparent mistake of originally installing FreeBSD on the > second slice of my disk, reserving space in the first slice for a DOS > partition for dual booting. Now I've decided I'd like to make that > first slice available for FreeBSD, but find that FreeBSD insists on > booting from the first FreeBSD slice on the disk -- and my bootable > slice is the second. This turns out to be documented on the boot > manpage. > Is there any workaround beside backing up, repartitioning, and restoring > my disk? disklabel the first part. make a root partition on it. copy your root to it. use it instead, and make your old root /tmp or something.. julian