From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 19 13: 3:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA2C37B402; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:03:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0335.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.80] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16nQl6-0004wU-00; Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:03:04 -0800 Message-ID: <3C97A775.818103DE@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:02:45 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carlos Antonio Ruggiero Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, "Brian T . Schellenberger" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: booting from extended slice References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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