RE: Changing boot partition ACCOMPLISHED, now INIT problem
- From: Nuno Gonçalves <nuno@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:37:28 -0000
Hi all,
Thanks on all your hints. I accomplished booting to another partition with a
backup from the machine that was all wrecked. It was a little tricky.
I installed a minimum FreeBSD and created a second slice to restore the
other FreeBSD SO and make it bootable. Then I created the filesystem,
mounted it and restored the backup to that partition.
Afterwards I changed the FSTAB file to reflect the new reality (the
partitions are now different) and did a reboot! And voilá, when I pressed F2
key on boot manager It started to boot the FreeBSD of the wrecked machine :)
Still after probing all the hardware (CDROM, Ethernet boards fxp0, etc) It
showed me the following message:
23:29:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port ...
23:29:19 init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port ...
-----Original Message-----
From: Aryeh M. Friedman [mailto:aryeh.friedman@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: quinta-feira, 27 de Dezembro de 2007 13:39
To: Nuno Gonçalves
Cc: freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Changing boot partition
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Nuno Gonçalves wrote:
Hi all,that
I Have a FreeBSD booting ok. It?s FSTAB is like this:
#Device MountPoint FStype Options
/dev/ad1s1b none swap sw
/dev/ad1s1a / ufs rw
/dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto
/dev/ad1s2d /backup ufs rw
When I boot the machine the boot manager shows me F1 and F2 to boot for.
F1 brings me /dev/ad1s1a OK
Still I want the machine to boot to /dev/ad1s2d
This partition has a backup from another FreeBSD which I want to boot.
To accomplish this, I need only to change FSTAB ?
What changes should I do ? changing /dev/ad1s2d to /dev/ad1s2a ? I read
a means boot root partition
I tried to change FSTAB to
#Device MountPoint FStype Options
/dev/ad1s1b none swap sw
#/dev/ad1s1a / ufs rw
/dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto
/dev/ad1s2a /backup ufs rw
And it hanged when I pressed F1 (could not mount the root partition :P )
Could you guys give any hint ?
Sorry about this questions but I am a newbie to FreeBSD
I forget the exact semantics but do a search for "installing freebsd
in a usb stick" on google the reason for referring to this site is it
shows how to duplicate what sysinstall does from the command line
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Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems
http://www.flosoft-systems.com
Developer, not business, friendly
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