From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 9 16:24:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA22106 for current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:24:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA22079 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 16:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id BAA01851 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 01:24:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id XAA04562; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 23:40:29 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 23:40:29 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199712092240.XAA04562@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E References: <199712031706.EAA03912@godzilla.zeta.org.au> From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: Bootloader/kernel ignores "-a" flag... X-Original-Newsgroups: poster In-Reply-To: <199712031706.EAA03912@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bruce Evans wrote: > -a only works with "config kernel swap on generic" in the > kernel config file. This should be the default, but it breaks > "root on ...". It has nothing to do with swap. What is the "root on ..." stuff required for in GENERIC? I'm wondering all the time why the line in GENERIC doesn't read just config kernel swap generic Perhaps config's syntax rules should be changed so to allow config kernel generic instead. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)