From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 08:40:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F3FA37B401; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:40:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cvt.dk (ns.cvt.dk [130.225.95.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C00643F3F; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 08:40:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cp@cvt.dk) Received: from cvt.dk (cp.cvt.dk [130.225.95.152]) by mail.cvt.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC07F392D; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:48:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3EF97D6E.34309403@cvt.dk> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:46:06 +0200 From: Christoffer Pio Organization: Center for Videnteknologi X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <3ECB3EC7.574DD8D6@cvt.dk> <20030521091703.GB76149@droso.net> <20030521092358.GC76149@droso.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: kernel option for ounting root on cdrom X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:40:31 -0000 It would be a good idea to have the documentation (release notes faq, etc) reflect that the kernel option to mount a cdrom on root / is no-longer options ROOTDEVNAME=\"cd9660:acd0c\" which is the way to do it in 4.5 but from 4.8 it has changed to options ROOTDEVNAME=\"cd9660:acd0\" rather than having people spend endless hours trying to figure out what went wrong. C