From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 17:16:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAF80106566B for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:16:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mdf356@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f182.google.com (mail-qy0-f182.google.com [209.85.216.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F6B8FC08 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:16:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk10 with SMTP id 10so192306qyk.13 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:16:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=CwFeiPh71TmGqpk5TfNFTMMz/mKl1p3GxqztmNxY7Rw=; b=Ta1XaP826MM7+lWl6YQNsEHsQp5ldIr2k/GpVLQarngJWmCfM21QzWObYyadYHOT87 p95bN152olNuK9fKOpL/QVNGAhqNuuMMY6iRGsUBHRcLrPkM0F6cLU4CUeVeHK14jlLE miKrJD3m+W7Gc/s38w4Q9CCbIh+trVVelP29I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=cx8YVF2tH9GN9uGNb6NiFE7CHEwx7eGYv9Buqn9C0U1J9aC2Nu6DI6ripgtpK3voa9 W0Y4H3smOd93w57i6JMJxSNnC67z+sVCtjinYZ8h4ZDLdVko4rRvqru+xNy09CB1z9ZJ 6O2wXUdIF53f53wXIyzzIsRkPMc85FJEsFE9k= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.65.77 with SMTP id h13mr5271427qai.196.1277311536763; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:45:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: mdf356@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.28.79 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:45:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100623.160330.281.1@DEV> References: <20100623.160330.281.1@DEV> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:45:36 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4zu1VtNCbCS7ODIE6uLu2kYTVWc Message-ID: From: mdf@FreeBSD.org To: rank1seeker@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader prompt: list / on other device X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:16:17 -0000 On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:03 AM, 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