From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 23:57:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A7B316A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:57:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE8943D48 for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:57:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1D705N-0000fp-Cv for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:50:29 +0100 Received: from office.wingnet.net ([216.64.98.250]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:50:29 +0100 Received: from jesse by office.wingnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:50:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:45:35 -0500 Organization: WingNET Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <42279EEB.5060801@daleco.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: office.wingnet.net User-Agent: KNode/0.8.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot like linux! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:57:10 -0000 Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Jesse Guardiani wrote: > > > >>Anyway, that worked. The kernel boots now, but it prompts >>me at the beginning of the rc process for the root device. >>I give it: >> >>ufs:ad1s1d >> >>Which is my / partition, and it boots successfully. >>Is it possible to automate this process so that the loader >>knows to use ad1s1d as my root device? >> >>Thanks! >> >> > > Please note that I'm a "fellow newb", and don't take this > as if it were from an authoritative source (other than whoever > I'm quoting...) > > from boot(8): > > "Make note of the fact that /boot.config is read only from the `a' > parti- > tion. As a result, slices which are missing an `a' parition > require user > intervention during the boot process." I am under the impression that boot.config is optional. It doesn't exist on either of my 5.3 systems. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net