From owner-freebsd-small Fri May 19 12: 4:27 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 60A4837B5A3 for ; Fri, 19 May 2000 12:04:22 -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 MAA09342; Fri, 19 May 2000 12:05:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005191905.MAA09342@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 13:55:41 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 12:05:19 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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 > > I tried that. Mine looked like > > options ROOTDEVNAME=\"fla0s1a\" > > (using LINT as a guide). However, it didn't work as advertised. Passing > the -r switch via boot2 did not cause the kernel to use its compiled-in > root device name. How can I best express my vexation at the lack of information in this report? Particularly, how can I phrase my irritation so that you give me more information, in the perhaps-vain hope that since I wrote the code in question, I might well be able to fix it? -- \\ 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