From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 12 20:05:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46E237B401 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123F243F3F for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:05:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.8/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h3D35qA7042155; Sat, 12 Apr 2003 21:05:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 21:05:15 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20030412.210515.27187828.imp@bsdimp.com> To: bra@fsn.hu From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: root_disk_unit X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 03:05:55 -0000 In message: Attila Nagy writes: : Hello, : : Is it possible that the root_disk_unit variable doesn't work in CURRENT? : I am trying with a CURRENT from 10, April without the effects it should : provide. : : Already tried set root_disk_unit="1" in the loader and the : root_disk_unit="1" in /boot/loader.conf and /boot/defaults/loader.conf. : : The machine boots from da0, it doesn't care about this variable. : : What did I do wrong? I know that on -stable, setting root_disk_unit=2 in /boot/loader.conf allows us to boot off of 'ad2' on some of the embedded boxes that have a CF slot on them that is ad2... However, I've not tried this on stable. You might want to try setting root_disk_unit at the ok prompt. Warner