On 23 June 2013, at 20:39, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: > >> I had to convert a system from GPT to MBR. All went fine till I tried to >> reboot the system. It gets to mountroot and dies trying to mount from >> ufs:/dev/ada0p2. That won't work. > > The loader should be getting that information from /etc/fstab. Have the > entries there been changed?
That was the problem. The system used GPT before and I can't believe I forgot to update fstab. That was a really dumb mistake. Thanks very much. > >> If I enter ufs:/dev/ada0s1a then the system boots fine and runs. I need to >> alter mountroot so it tries the right partition/slice. How do I do that? I >> couldn't find anything in the handbook on that. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html > has some information. > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
