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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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