Re: boot from USB disk

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am 13.03.2010 21:33, schrieb Saifi Khan:
> Hi:
>
> DragonFlyBSD was installed on a SATA disk which was part of the
> system. After installation the system booted up fine.
>
> The system was shutdown and the SATA disk was removed and placed
> in a USB disk enclosure.
>
> Now the system was powered on and 'boot from USB boot disk' was
> selected. The BTX loader worked, so did the initial boot up
> sequence until the step of mounting the partition, where it
> panic'd at the 'root mount'.
>
> Is there a workaround to fix this issue ?

You might have to tweak the following things:

* vfs.root.mountfrom in /boot/loader.conf
* dumpdev in /etc/rc.conf
* the entries in /etc/fstab

It's likely your device name changed to something like ad8.

Sascha

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