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Date:      Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:09:28 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" <ncbp@bank-pedersen.dk>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The new bootloader - how do you set it up? 
Message-ID:  <199810302009.MAA01740@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 21:06:31 %2B0100." <19981030210631.A29433@bank-pedersen.dk> 

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> On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 08:46:36PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > 
> >   make world
> > 
> > followed by 
> > 
> >   disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 <disk>
> > 
> > will upgrade you completely.  The visible parts of the new loader are 
> > in /boot/loader, and are updated by 'make world'.
> 
> Is the issue with a "changing" bootdevice during boot solved?
> I saw some reports on problems when booting from a device that
> wouldn't become the root-device -- resulting in "root device
> doesn't match mounted device" when remounting "/".
> I ask because I am using OS/2 bootloader (installed on wd0) to boot
> FreeBSD from da0, and I ran into the abovementioned problem.
> ( - could be because I haven't configured wd-support in my kernel (only
> M$-stuff there anyway :), but I'd like that to work as well.)

You might need to set $rootdev explicitly.  You'd have this problem 
with the old loader too.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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