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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 11:18:33 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com>
Cc:        freebsd-small <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: (Probably a) dumb question 
Message-ID:  <200005191818.LAA09123@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 May 2000 11:30:07 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005191120550.5666-100000@lepton.subatomix.com> 

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> On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
> >
> > So the basic problem is that the kernel isn't choosing
> > fla0s1a as the root device.
> 
> Well, I've just found that I can work around it by using the third stage
> loader; I was previously trying to boot directly from boot2.  I guess
> boot2 is just too dumb to do the job.  It's a shame, because loader is a
> waste of space (IMHO) for many small FreeBSD applications.

You're right, it is.  You're aware that you can compile in a root path
name?  

options		ROOTDEVNAME=ufs:fla0s1a

should do the trick.
-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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