Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:42:02 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Sean Hamilton" <sh@bel.bc.ca>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Bootable FreeBSD CD Message-ID: <p05200f51ba29935a5ed6@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <000601c2a89e$d6a2ae40$18d6e8d8@slugabed.org> References: <000601c2a89e$d6a2ae40$18d6e8d8@slugabed.org>
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At 7:12 PM -0800 12/20/02, Sean Hamilton wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>How does the kernel on the FreeBSD install CD know which device to
>mount as root? I'm assuming it hasn't got a ROOTDEVNAME config
>option, since that would make it fairly specific to certain hardware.
>
>Mine always tries to mount fd0.
You might want to check out
http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/freebsdtogo/
It might be helpful for whatever you're trying to do...
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Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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