Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:55:20 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Oliver Lehmann <Kai_Allard_Liao@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootdisk Message-ID: <15014.44616.990020.519057@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <12058.984001951@www11.gmx.net> References: <12058.984001951@www11.gmx.net>
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Oliver Lehmann writes: > Hi again. > > Ok, at work i've tryed several things. With the following mehtod, i can boot > from disk and change the rootdevice to the scsi disk after loading the > kernel: > > > >>> boot dva0 - flags n > > [ booting kernel ] > > and after booting the kernel i must insert the rootdevice ( -n flag) > > ufs:da0a > > and he boots from my scsi drive. > > but the problem is, how can i automatize the boot-process? > > a) normaly the alpha-machin boots with "boot dva0" how can i add the flag? set bootdefdev dva0 > b) how can i set the rootdev static to da0a ? Can't you just edit the /boot/loader.conf on the floppy and insert a line like: set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/da0a or something like that? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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