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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

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