From owner-freebsd-small Fri May 19 9:26:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from lepton.subatomix.com (okc-224-168.mmcable.com [24.94.224.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C15EF37BB90 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 09:26:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jss@lepton.subatomix.com) Received: from localhost (jss@localhost) by lepton.subatomix.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05674 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 11:30:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jss@lepton.subatomix.com) Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:30:07 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" To: freebsd-small Subject: Re: (Probably a) dumb question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote: > > So the basic problem is that the kernel isn't choosing > fla0s1a as the root device. Well, I've just found that I can work around it by using the third stage loader; I was previously trying to boot directly from boot2. I guess boot2 is just too dumb to do the job. It's a shame, because loader is a waste of space (IMHO) for many small FreeBSD applications. > Just to make sure, then, is my dumb question: in 4.0-STABLE, how does the > kernel decide what device to use for the root filesystem? Uh, never mind... :) =============================== Jeffrey S. Sharp (XorAxAx) jss@subatomix.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GCS/IT/MU d-@ s-:+ a21 C++(++++) UBL+(+++$)> P L+(+++$)> E+> W++ N+(++) o? K? w++$> !O M(-) !V PS+ PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+ R(+) tv+ b+ DI++(+++) G++ e> h--- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message