From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 17 16:15:21 2004 Return-Path: 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 1AB5816A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:15:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A93FE43D4C for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:15:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i7HGFGjn031089 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:15:16 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:15:16 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040817161516.GB53307@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20040817185240.A5554@oasis.uptsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040817185240.A5554@oasis.uptsoft.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: actual boot device X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:15:21 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 17), Sergey Lyubka said: > How would one know the actual boot device after kernel successfully > booted ? The kern.bootfile sysctl points to the kernel file that was loaded, according to the loader. If you booted off of cdrom or floppy, you can run "kenv loaddev" to find out which device was actually used to read the file. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com