Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:24:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha multiboot: is it possible? Message-ID: <199912130324.TAA04953@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Dec 1999 16:40:11 PST." <199912130040.QAA04009@vashon.polstra.com>
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> In article <199912130031.QAA04415@mass.cdrom.com>, > Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > > > > I just got a report that $rootdev doesn't parse correctly without a > > trailing ':', and indeed the original design was for the trailing colon > > to be mandatory. > > I tried it with the trailing colon too, but that didn't make any > difference. > > My setup is a bit complicated, so let me fill in the details. On da0a > I have -current. On da0f I have -stable. I suppose the /boot/loader > that's being used is coming from da0a, so maybe that causes problems > for booting a -stable kernel. > > I even tried configuring the -stable kernel with an explicit "config > kernel root on da0f" in the config file, but it still gives me da0a as > the root filesystem when I boot it. I don't think -stable on the alpha will work with / anywhere but on da0a. You might try swapping the two systems around, since -current _should_ work properly like that. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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