From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 15 04:05:00 2008 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 A8BD4106566C for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:05:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDD348FC08 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:04:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6F3WXpn013655 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:02:33 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:02:23 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <482257ad0807141106m679ec19frd853339637d27a2d@mail.gmail.com> <20080714165747.6c12371b@bhuda.mired.org> <482257ad0807141925m37c5b46bqa65c33852078b6f8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <482257ad0807141925m37c5b46bqa65c33852078b6f8@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1286294.IYKM9OJmET"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200807151302.30415.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Tapan Chaudhari Subject: Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time. 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: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:05:00 -0000 --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--