From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 20 19:42:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60BA837B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:42:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7271A43EFF for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:42:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gBL3g3dE218408; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:42:03 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <000601c2a89e$d6a2ae40$18d6e8d8@slugabed.org> References: <000601c2a89e$d6a2ae40$18d6e8d8@slugabed.org> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:42:02 -0500 To: "Sean Hamilton" , From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Bootable FreeBSD CD Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:12 PM -0800 12/20/02, Sean Hamilton wrote: >Greetings, > >How does the kernel on the FreeBSD install CD know which device to >mount as root? I'm assuming it hasn't got a ROOTDEVNAME config >option, since that would make it fairly specific to certain hardware. > >Mine always tries to mount fd0. You might want to check out http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/freebsdtogo/ It might be helpful for whatever you're trying to do... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message