From owner-freebsd-small Fri May 19 11:17:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-206-88-224.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.206.88.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 688A637B532 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 11:17:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA09123; Fri, 19 May 2000 11:18:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005191818.LAA09123@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" Cc: freebsd-small Subject: Re: (Probably a) dumb question In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 19 May 2000 11:30:07 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 11:18:33 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message