From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 7 13:55:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B07537B718 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:55:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA11677; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:55:51 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.2/8.9.1) id f27LtLe26466; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:55:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15014.44616.990020.519057@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:55:20 -0500 (EST) To: Oliver Lehmann Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootdisk In-Reply-To: <12058.984001951@www11.gmx.net> References: <12058.984001951@www11.gmx.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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