From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 19 22:09:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA04578 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:09:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr02.primenet.com (tlambert@usr02.primenet.com [206.165.6.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA04573 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:09:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA17597; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 22:09:28 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709200509.WAA17597@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Is there a way to prompt for boot device? To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 05:09:23 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jaye Mathisen" at Sep 19, 97 05:50:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > ie, my kernel might have sd8 as the root device, but for other reasons, > when I boot, I might want sd0 as the root device. > > I thought the -r or -a options would do it, but that's not quite what I > expected. I've always though the "last mounted" timestamp should be considered for determining which device is root (along with the "last mounted on" directory stored in the superblock). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.