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Date:      Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:45:36 -0700
From:      mdf@FreeBSD.org
To:        rank1seeker@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: loader prompt: list / on other device
Message-ID:  <AANLkTinWjX7Y9W0jJBVZeTmdITA3f8rRxSzoY6dx79nz@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100623.160330.281.1@DEV>
References:  <20100623.160330.281.1@DEV>

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On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:03 AM,  <rank1seeker@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've escaped to loader prompt:
> Current device is disk0s3a, from which this loader is running.
>
> My USB stick is device1 and device1s2a is UFS /, on which I would like to
> reach some file or simply list directory.

IIRC, there is no way to do this (but my memory is based on stable/7).
 I extended some Isilon stuff to add a 'bootdev' command to the loader
that would allow for selecting alternate boot disks.  I can see about
dusting that off and making a patch against CURRENT, if there is no
current way to do what you ask.

Cheers,
matthew



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