Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:13:09 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: M-systems DiskOnChip Message-ID: <200003221713.KAA20136@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: From chad at "Mar 20, 0 04:22:23 pm"
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As I recall, chad wrote: > The device driver on the development system works. We can mount the > DiskOnChip (as /dev/fla0s4a -- we fdisk'd and disklabel'd it). We > can get a kernel installed on the DiskOnChip, and get the BIOS to load > that kernel into memory. But we can't figure out what magic incantation > it takes to get the kernel to know where its root filesystem is. > > The "kernel" config option in the config file seems to be being > ignored, and I can't grok the disk naming conventions in > /boot/loader.rc for the "rootdev" variable. > > So we get as far as the kernel trying to change root to wd0a and > panicing. I'd like to back up a step. Am I wrong in assuming that a "root on" clause on the "kernel" line in the config file should take care of this? Or that some variable setting in the loader.rc file should do it too? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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