Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:39:30 +0200 From: Marc Heckmann <mhec@merconic.com> To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "boot -a" in 4.5-STABLE Message-ID: <20020423093930.GB14225@merconic.com> In-Reply-To: <3CC4E71A.265861D5@herbelot.com> References: <20020422174455.GA8682@merconic.com> <3CC4E71A.265861D5@herbelot.com>
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Hi, On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 06:46:18AM +0200, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Marc Heckmann wrote: > > > > I've got 4.5-STABLE setup here with vinum as per the Vinum bootstrapping howto > > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/index.html). > > > > I have ad0s1a which is "/" and ad2s1a which is mounted on /rootback, it's an > > exact copy of the "/" filesystem. > ^^^^^ > [SNIP] > > mountroot> ufs:/dev/ad2s1a > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a <---- NOTE this > > if the root partitions are identical, the /etc/fstab files are also > identical, so you are truing to mount the initial root paartition from > the second disk. correct, the value in /etc/fstab, seems to override whatever I manually tell the kernel to use as the root device. But if I am booting with "-a" and "-s", shouldn't the fstab just be ignored? I should have / on ad2s1a mounted RO at that point so I can manually re-mount RW and edit my fstab. The vinum bootstrap howto also seems to describe that way. What is the expected behavious should be when using the "-a" switch? Thanks in advance -m -- m. heckmann. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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