Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:02:23 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Tapan Chaudhari <tapan.list@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time. Message-ID: <200807151302.30415.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <482257ad0807141925m37c5b46bqa65c33852078b6f8@mail.gmail.com> References: <482257ad0807141106m679ec19frd853339637d27a2d@mail.gmail.com> <20080714165747.6c12371b@bhuda.mired.org> <482257ad0807141925m37c5b46bqa65c33852078b6f8@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart1286294.IYKM9OJmET Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Tapan Chaudhari wrote: > Thank You Mateusz and Mike. I guess I am clear with my doubt now. I > will also go through the man pages to go into depth of it. The critical thing is that the loader must read the kernel (and modules,=20 config etc..) from a disk the BIOS knows about. After that you can use any device the kernel knows about. As for the virtual device aspect - could you use a geom class to do you=20 want? It's hard to say without an overview of what you actually want to=20 achieve :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1286294.IYKM9OJmET Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIfBpO5ZPcIHs/zowRAhfcAKChEdS7klPgO/wVsH2cA4dJd2fTnwCeIFwT S4Godvivg0Yxu5/oT6EG5OA= =qym3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1286294.IYKM9OJmET--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200807151302.30415.doconnor>