Need support in pointing boot loader to /dev/disk1p4

[pbrazendale]

Hi,

Thanks to another member who supported in getting my systems to boot when it couldn't find a bootable partition.

This was solved by:

set currdev=/dev/disk1p4

boot

The system then booted fine, how do I go about amending the boot loader to make this change permanent on each boot? /dev/disk1p4 is the UFS root partition on the drive.

Thanks

 

[nxjoseph]

currdev=/dev/disk1p4

I think that you can just add this to your /boot/loader.conf

 

[T-Aoki]

I think that you can just add this to your /boot/loader.conf

If it somehow doesn't work, try rootdev instead when specified in /boot/loader.conf.

Note that historically vfs.root.mountfrom variable in /boot/loader.conf (i.e., vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/ada1p4" for UFS and vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zroot/ROOT/default" for ZFS) was used from pre-UEFI era.

See /boot/defaults/loader.conf and loader.conf(5) manpage thoroughly.

 

[furaisanjin]

I also think that rootdev is better way. See https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/change-freebsd-loaders-loaddev-variable.88277/post-601204