Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:06:40 -0800 From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com> To: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt? Message-ID: <45A74FA0.3030203@svcolo.com> In-Reply-To: <45A73734.6050507@FreeBSD.org> References: <E22808FA-5C42-443E-AA32-0DA3247077AC@svcolo.com> <45A73734.6050507@FreeBSD.org>
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Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > Jo Rhett wrote: >> So I've been searching for hours now, and it appears that short of >> reading the C code, there's no documentation of the boot2 menu >> prompt. >> >> Sure, it says drive:driver(unit,slice,part) >> >> But no combination of those three that I can find actually works. >> >> There's two LUNs: drive 0: single 2TB slice drive 1: 264GB, with >> root, swap, etc >> >> How do I tell boot2 to find the loader on disk1? > Take a look at boot(8). I did. Really. That's what I'm complaining about. > I think you need to specify the file to load: 1:da(1,a)/boot/loader No, you can just specify the device and it will load the default kernel from that. Or you can specify the device and use ? and it will show you a list of files. But if you can't figure out the device name...? -- Jo Rhett senior geek Silicon Valley Colocation
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