Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:02:45 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Carlos Antonio Ruggiero <toto@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, "Brian T . Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from extended slice Message-ID: <3C97A775.818103DE@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0203191724310.5385-100000@sdf.lonestar.org>
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Carlos Antonio Ruggiero wrote: > > I think he means it can't find it's root there because of > > libstand. > > That is what surprised me: after the kernel kicks in everything works fine. > It mounts root in the extended slice alright (the only FBSD slice in ad0 > is ad0s10): > ixtoto# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0a 4071604 2289008 1456868 61% / ... Libstand is used by the loader code, not by the kernel. The kernel can find it, but if you can't load the kernel off of it and run it, a non-running kernel can't find it. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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