Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 18:25:27 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: Bootloader/kernel ignores "-a" flag... Message-ID: <199712100725.SAA12673@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> -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 So that booting -r gives wd0 :-). >Perhaps config's syntax rules should be changed so to allow > > config kernel generic > >instead. It should allow config kernel and swap*.c shouldn't exist. swapgeneric.c should be in autoconf.c and the two variables in the automatically generated swap*.c's (rootdev and dumpdev) should be in param.c (they can be configured using #defines). Bruce
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