From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 9 17:40:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D49A514E04 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 17:40:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA01587; Fri, 9 Apr 1999 17:38:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199904100038.RAA01587@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "George Morgan" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loader, "3rd Stage"... In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Apr 1999 20:32:38 EDT." <199904100032.UAA32515@sable.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 17:38:09 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What is the purpose of the "Loader" in FreeBSD 3.x (I assume it > appeared first in 3.0???) > > I have helped with several installs and the "loader" never seems to > be set up find the root slice... I have reconfigured at least one of > those systems in the /boot.config file to use the second level boot > program to load from the correct location. > > Are their plans to document the loader? I plan to set up all > systems that I help install to use the second level boot program > since this is the only way I know how to do it.. You might try the loader(8) manpage, and the online help in the loader. It would help if you actually detailed the problem you're having, I suspect that "help set root_disk_unit" would probably tell you everything you need to know. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message