From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 12 14: 0:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734F114E21 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:00:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA19381 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:00:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA03299 for alpha@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:00:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:00:42 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Alpha multiboot: is it possible? Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have an Alpha with one disk and two root filesystems. The root filesystems are on da0a and da0f. I want to be able to boot either one, but I can't seem to find the magic recipe to boot from da0f. From man loader, I would expect this to work at the loader prompt: unload set currdev=disk0f set rootdev=disk0f load /kernel boot That loads the correct kernel (the one on da0f) but the kernel still thinks its root filesystem is da0a. I tried adding set boot_askname and (next try) set boot_askname=true in an attempt to get the kernel to let me tell it which root filesystem to use. That had no effect. I also tried adding "-a" to the boot command, again with no effect. Is this just broken, or am I doing something wrong? John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." -- Nora Ephron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message