Re: installing on F40/E30

On Thursday 24 August 2006 14:15, you wrote:
> On 24-Aug-2006 Mauricio Lima Pilla wrote:
> >  - When I rebooted it, I had to manually tell it to use /dev/sd0b (it was
> > trying to boot from the swap partition, which is /dev/sd0a).
>
> Umm.. huh?  Did you change the partition orders in sysinst when installing,
> or did the installer do that all by itself?

I've manually chosen first swap, then root (I'm more acquainted with Linux, 
and there it doesn't make any difference). 

>
> > For the last item, should I reinstall it to make / the first partition,
> > or where do I change the bootloader to boot automagically from the
> > correct partition?
>
> The standard in BSD is to allways have root on "a" and swap on "b". 
> On-disk order doesn't matter, and technically, niether does the name.. but
> there is a chance certain things might assume things one way or another.
>
> You can probably fix that just by editing the disklabel and swapping the a
> and b lines around, and then swapping the letters.  Also make sure the
> partition type is set on each correctly.  / should be 4.2BSD and swap
> should be "swap".
OK. I'll try it. 


Thanks again,

Pilla


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