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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!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: changing root disk Date: 24 Jun 1997 19:11:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5op646$2gt@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <RHUFF.97Jun24111740@shell1.cybercom.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43460 rhuff@shell1.cybercom.net (Robert Huff) wrote: > My plan is to a) recompile, using "root on sd0", and b) > change the fstab to point to the correct places. (There may be > other stuff, but that will come after the system boots > correctly.) > Is there anything else I need to change before pulling out > the Win95 disk? There's even less: the kernel ``root on sd0'' is purely cosmetic. By default, the kernel adjusts its root device to its boot device anyway. You should even be able to boot the disk without changing anything, but only up to single-user, since the automatic filesystem mount will fail. At this point, ``mount -u -w /dev/sd0a /'', to get the root f/s read/write, ``ed /etc/fstab'' --> and you are done. Of course, editing fstab before is more convenient. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)