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Date:      Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:58:28 -0500
From:      David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com>
To:        "Ryan J.Taylor" <rj@rjt.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sucessful install
Message-ID:  <DED1D412-987C-11D8-B8E0-000A95AFBEB4@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <D68C5F18-986B-11D8-9F7D-000393829E22@rjt.org>
References:  <20040427163012.45685.qmail@web40703.mail.yahoo.com> <D68C5F18-986B-11D8-9F7D-000393829E22@rjt.org>

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On Apr 27, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Ryan J.Taylor wrote:

>
> On Apr 27, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Lawrence Cornell wrote:
>
>> I caught that email last night, but looking at the
>> bootup log it didn't look like to me that it booted up
>> to the point of anything but single user mode..
>> correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Both loader and the kernel came from my tftp server.  After specifying 
> root manually it does boot to multiuser.  I could probably stick an 
> /etc/fstab on the boot server and have the Mac mount root on its own.  
> The alternative would be interrupting loader and having it load the 
> kernel from disk (I think that works?).

Does FreeBSD have this?  I have this on my DragonFlyBSD box.

vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/ad1s1a"

That may work in the loader.conf

Dave



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