Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 00:30:25 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOWTO: install without floppy, cdrom, or pxe. Message-ID: <20031201083025.GF75620@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20031201082352.03243760@popserver.sfu.ca> References: <20031201081809.GE75620@elvis.mu.org> <5.0.2.1.1.20031201082352.03243760@popserver.sfu.ca>
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* Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> [031201 00:27] wrote: > At 00:18 01/12/2003 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >Then type these commands into the loader: > >unload kernel > >load /ikernel > >load -t mfs_root /mfsroot > >set vfs.root.mountfrom > >boot ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Surely that should be vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" ? > > It should also be possible to put the above into /boot/loader.rc. Setting it blank seems to do the right thing. What happens otherwise is that the loader starts booting, then there's some code in it that "handily" parses the currdev's /etc/fstab for you and sets vfs.root.mountfrom to the root (/) entry from the fstab, then you wind up booting your old userland from god knows what kernel. I don't know what setting it to "ufs:/dev/md0c" would do. -- - Alfred Perlstein - Research Engineering Development Inc. - email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684
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