Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:13:16 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Clay <crs.freebsd_mailinglist@users.nuaptools.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Can "/etc/rc.conf" be replaced with a symlink? Message-ID: <20050301051316.GA28148@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <018201c51e10$294d9ef0$be00a8c0@crskayak> References: <006801c51d4b$c95e99a0$be00a8c0@crskayak> <200502281803.56890.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <016601c51e06$eaf3a400$be00a8c0@crskayak> <200502281934.27158.krinklyfig@spymac.com> <018201c51e10$294d9ef0$be00a8c0@crskayak>
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--Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:38:38PM -0500, Clay wrote: > All, >=20 > I changed fstab so that my data partition would supposely mount before ro= ot,=20 How do you think fstab will be read to know to mount some other partition first, when root (where fstab lives) is not yet mounted? > moved/symlink'd rc.conf, and rebooted. This did not allow rc.conf to be= =20 > found, so doing this did not make it work. I will leave rc.conf in /etc = for=20 > now and maybe work on a solution at a later time. By definition you can't move out of / files needed to bootstrap the system, so you'll need to rethink your approach. Kris --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCI/nsWry0BWjoQKURAmyxAJ9n5roPqGk4iEhDYWSdLnwGZNUuKQCg+UOh CoQpo6rYvn7dDYwojjDG4uo= =dYnb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--
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