From owner-freebsd-small Wed Mar 22 9:13:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC9637C1A2 for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:13:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA20136; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:13:09 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200003221713.KAA20136@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: M-systems DiskOnChip In-Reply-To: From chad at "Mar 20, 0 04:22:23 pm" To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 10:13:09 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, chad wrote: > The device driver on the development system works. We can mount the > DiskOnChip (as /dev/fla0s4a -- we fdisk'd and disklabel'd it). We > can get a kernel installed on the DiskOnChip, and get the BIOS to load > that kernel into memory. But we can't figure out what magic incantation > it takes to get the kernel to know where its root filesystem is. > > The "kernel" config option in the config file seems to be being > ignored, and I can't grok the disk naming conventions in > /boot/loader.rc for the "rootdev" variable. > > So we get as far as the kernel trying to change root to wd0a and > panicing. I'd like to back up a step. Am I wrong in assuming that a "root on" clause on the "kernel" line in the config file should take care of this? Or that some variable setting in the loader.rc file should do it too? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message