Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:13:46 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: -CURRENT boot1 broken? Message-ID: <a1moea$h2$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <a00q22$10i$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <XFMail.011228232825.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <a0ococ$50e$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote: > As a side effect of experimenting with various boot combinations, > I'm confused about where the different components are loaded from. While testing Ian's patch, I've tried again various combinations, and Mike is right: > 1. At the SRM prompt, booting from a particular drive will load the > bootstrap (boot1) from there. > 2. boot1 proceeds to load /boot/loader from the same drive. You > can specify a different file name, but there appears to be no > way to qualify this with a drive. > 3. loader pulls in the kernel from da0, even if booted from a > different drive. 3. loader pulls in the kernel from the same drive. (I must have been confused there.) > 4. The kernel mounts da0a as root device. 4. The kernel mounts / as specified in /etc/fstab on the boot drive. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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