Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:11:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [loader?] secret to setting root elsewhere?. Message-ID: <200101260011.f0Q0BO100646@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:01:25 PST." <3A70B045.C4226CE1@elischer.org>
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> > > #autoboot_delay="10" # Delay in seconds before autobooting
> > > #console="vidconsole" # Set the current console
> > > currdev="disk1s1a" # Set the current device
> > > module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules" # Set the module search path
> > > #prompt="\\${interpret}" # Set the command prompt
> > > root_disk_unit="1" # Force the root disk unit number
> > > rootdev="disk1s1a" # Set the root filesystem
> > >
> > >
> > > but it still loads disk0 as root..
> > >
> > > what am I doing wrong?
> >
> > You don't "load a disk as root".
> >
> > 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.
>
> YUUUKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!
>
> I'm specifying a different place because the place where fstab is is SCREWED!!!!
Ah, shut yer trap. It reads /etc/fstab from wherever the kernel is
loaded from, and if /etc/fstab is hosed/can't be parsed, it'll fall back
to trying to guess using the old algorithms. The new behaviour is a
functional superset of the old.
> but it will let me do what I want.
Of course, you don't actually bother to mention what your problem is, so
I still can't actually *help* you.
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people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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