From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 11:31: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omega.procergs.com.br (omega.procergs.com.br [200.198.128.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A012337B41E for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 11:30:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (unknown [172.28.6.101]) by omega.procergs.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71737270EE; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:31:39 -0300 (BRT) Subject: Re: top and vmstart refuse to work on a FreeBSD 4.5 install. From: O Senhor To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Dan Naumov , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020425103808.A47597@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020425093154.42998.qmail@web21502.mail.yahoo.com> <1019753216.1223.41.camel@ws-tor-004> <20020425103808.A47597@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 25 Apr 2002 15:30:49 -0300 Message-Id: <1019759449.1223.48.camel@ws-tor-004> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG then, this is my problem. i wanna make one box machine to boot, and make it don't mount the root fs from /dev/ad0s1a. Then i stopped the loader in boot time and did give the flag -a to kernel (load kernel -a), then the kernel ask me to moun the root fs. then i did: nfs:10.124.66.20:raiz and it works!!! then, how can i tell to loader.conf or another file to mount roo fs from nfs:10.124.66.20:raiz directly... without my keystrokes...??? i put in rootdev variable in loader.conf, but i does not work. how can i do it ??? On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 14:38, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:46:55PM -0300, O Senhor wrote: > > > i wanna boot my kernel from boot2 stage too... and don't know how can i > > fix it! i wanna boot from boot2, but the kernel symbols must be > > available... > > the FAQ don't tell us how can fix it... > > You can't. The loader is required. > > Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message