From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 20 04:21:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA00445 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 04:21:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id EAA00423 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 04:21:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA12449 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 13:21:47 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id NAA11658; Sat, 20 Sep 1997 13:05:52 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970920130551.DB36336@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 13:05:51 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a way to prompt for boot device? References: <199709200219.WAA13122@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709200219.WAA13122@smoke.marlboro.vt.us>; from john hood on Sep 19, 1997 22:19:30 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As john hood wrote: > > I thought the -r or -a options would do it, but that's not quite what I > > expected. Btw., -r does it in some way: it will use the root device the kernel has been configured for (``kernel root on sd8''). > at least in 2.2.2, boot -a works only if you have the kernel > configured with "swap generic", which i think is not generally > recommended, though i can't remember why. For hysterical raisons? What the heck would break if we started shipping GENERIC in 3.0 with `swap generic'? What might break if we allowed -a for other kernels as well? I assume the answer to both questions is just ``nothing''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)