From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 23 2:39:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.merconic.com (mail.merconic.com [62.96.220.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 396D137B416 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 02:39:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 19191 invoked by uid 306); 23 Apr 2002 09:39:33 -0000 Received: from scotty.ds9 (192.168.2.100) by uhura.ds9 with SMTP; 23 Apr 2002 09:39:31 -0000 Received: by scotty.ds9 (Postfix, from userid 754) id E77DB58374; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:39:30 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:39:30 +0200 From: Marc Heckmann To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "boot -a" in 4.5-STABLE Message-ID: <20020423093930.GB14225@merconic.com> References: <20020422174455.GA8682@merconic.com> <3CC4E71A.265861D5@herbelot.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3CC4E71A.265861D5@herbelot.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 06:46:18AM +0200, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Marc Heckmann wrote: > > > > I've got 4.5-STABLE setup here with vinum as per the Vinum bootstrapping howto > > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/index.html). > > > > I have ad0s1a which is "/" and ad2s1a which is mounted on /rootback, it's an > > exact copy of the "/" filesystem. > ^^^^^ > [SNIP] > > mountroot> ufs:/dev/ad2s1a > > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a <---- NOTE this > > if the root partitions are identical, the /etc/fstab files are also > identical, so you are truing to mount the initial root paartition from > the second disk. correct, the value in /etc/fstab, seems to override whatever I manually tell the kernel to use as the root device. But if I am booting with "-a" and "-s", shouldn't the fstab just be ignored? I should have / on ad2s1a mounted RO at that point so I can manually re-mount RW and edit my fstab. The vinum bootstrap howto also seems to describe that way. What is the expected behavious should be when using the "-a" switch? Thanks in advance -m -- m. heckmann. -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message