From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Mar 6 19:14:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B70D37B718 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:14:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f273GCL04322; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 19:16:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103070316.f273GCL04322@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Oliver Lehmann Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Mar 2001 03:55:18 +0100." <16906.983933718@www9.gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 19:16:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 03:18:28 +0100 (MET) > Oliver Lehmann wrote: > > > options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:da0s1a\" > > i've tryed this on my i386 system at home wit ad0s1a but that does not work, > why? i've create a "boot.config" at my disk wit -r inside and reboot. but > the kernel trys to mount fd0c but WHY ? i dont understand it.. i've spcified > the ROOTDEVNAME in the kernel staticly... ROOTDEVNAME is an ultimate fallback unless you boot with the '-r' flag. ie. 'boot -r' will always use the compiled-in ROOTDEVNAME. If you don't specify '-r', ROOTDEVNAME is only used if both the /etc/fstab check and the fallbacks (determined by where the kernel was booted from, etc.) all fail. In your case, you have a UFS filesystem on fd0, so one of the fallbacks is succeeding. This wouldn't be the case on an Alpha, since the SRM disk interface is all weird and stuff. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message