Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:11:44 -0400 From: Ryan J.Taylor <rj@rjt.org> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sucessful install Message-ID: <B8F071CE-987E-11D8-8C0F-00306583DA7C@rjt.org> In-Reply-To: <DED1D412-987C-11D8-B8E0-000A95AFBEB4@mac.com> References: <20040427163012.45685.qmail@web40703.mail.yahoo.com> <D68C5F18-986B-11D8-9F7D-000393829E22@rjt.org> <DED1D412-987C-11D8-B8E0-000A95AFBEB4@mac.com>
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On Apr 27, 2004, at 2:58 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > > 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 Yes, FreeBSD has that and you can stick it in loader.conf (if needed). I've been booting without a loader.conf altogether.
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