Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:19:22 +0100 From: "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk> To: "Mike Smith" <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [loader?] secret to setting root elsewhere?. Message-ID: <010a01c08725$41cf0580$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> References: <200101252048.f0PKmZ801414@mass.dis.org>
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> If you mean "it loads the kernel from the wrong place", that's one thing. > If you mean "it mounts / from the wrong filesystem", then you should be > aware that the loader reads /etc/fstab, and the kernel will mount > whatever you've put in there. > Just curious, but isn't there a checken-and-egg problem here? If there is two complete systems, on each disk. If the root on disc 0 contains an /etc/fstab showing root to be mounted from disk 0, and the root on disk 1 contains an /etc/fstab showing root to be mounted from disk 1? How is it then possible to mount the root on disk 1? Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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