From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 12 19:21:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles516.castles.com [208.214.165.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DFAD14DD2 for ; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:21:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA04953; Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:24:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912130324.TAA04953@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John Polstra Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha multiboot: is it possible? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 12 Dec 1999 16:40:11 PST." <199912130040.QAA04009@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 19:24:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > In article <199912130031.QAA04415@mass.cdrom.com>, > Mike Smith 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