From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 11 16:12:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (blaubaer.kn-bremen.de [195.37.179.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49BDA14FB5 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:12:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (uucp@localhost) by blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with UUCP id BAA31807; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 01:10:29 +0100 Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.9.3/8.8.5) id WAA01008; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 22:47:30 +0100 (MET) From: Juergen Lock Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 22:47:30 +0100 To: Mike Smith Cc: zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk Message-ID: <19991111224730.A739@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <19991107035454.B59629@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <199911071957.LAA13619@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <199911071957.LAA13619@dingo.cdrom.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 11:57:26AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Rootdev ought to work, actually. But if you get it wrong, the loader > > > will fall back to using currdev. > > > > Hmm then thats strange. I first tried rootdev, which didn't work, and > > then later currdev, which did work, and i believe i used the same value > > both times! Or was rootdev fixed only recently, the boot floppies i > > had lying around and tested this on weren't the latest... > > I thought rootdev was fixed a long time back. If it's not, please tell > me and I'll fix it again. 8) Alright I finally got around testing this with a later kern.flp (3.3-R actually), and it still didn't work. I also noticed rootdev isn't listed when i do a `show', but i guess thats not the problem as other variables didn't show up either... Oh and loader.help isn't on the floppy although there would have been enough free space for it. And loading the kernel from the floppy seemed a bit slow, although i didn't time it... Regards, -- Juergen Lock (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message