Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:47:01 -0700 (MST) From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: jroberson@chesapeake.net Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [TEST/REVIEW]: rootfs mounting code rework Message-ID: <20041206.114701.104086228.imp@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: <20041205044145.A18185@mail.chesapeake.net> References: <56325.1102236241@critter.freebsd.dk> <20041205044145.A18185@mail.chesapeake.net>
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> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > In message <p0620073ebdd844240e34@[128.113.24.47]>, Garance A Drosihn writes: > > >At 11:08 AM +0100 12/4/04, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > >>http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/rootfs.patch > > >> > > >>Please test and review. > > > > > >Hmm. Does this mean that we'll always get the correct partition > > >for '/', even if /etc/fstab is wrong for '/'? By "correct", I > > >mean "the partition that the kernel was loaded from". > > > > The loader reads /etc/fstab and picks the entry for '/' out of it > > so I can only pressume that whoever did that disagree with your > > notion of "correct". > > I believe he's referring to the case where you load a kernel from > somewhere other than the default '/'. The only way I've made this work is to put a /etc/fstab on the default / which points to the real one I want to use... Warner
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