From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 19 12:42:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bsdhome.dyndns.org (unknown [24.25.2.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1850937B423 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 12:42:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@bsdhome.com) Received: from vger.bsdhome.com (vger [192.168.220.2]) by bsdhome.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3JJgpJ36498; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:42:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsd@bsdhome.com) Received: (from bsd@localhost) by vger.bsdhome.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f3JJgoB28058; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:42:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsd) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:42:49 -0400 From: Brian Dean To: Makoto MATSUSHITA Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Failed using CD-ROM as root filesystem Message-ID: <20010419154249.A26622@vger.bsdhome.com> References: <20010416132724H.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010416132724H.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>; from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org on Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:27:24PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 01:27:24PM +0900, Makoto MATSUSHITA wrote: > I've tried to use (bootable) CD-ROM as root filesystem (I want have > this because it's good alternative of fixit.flp), but it seems that > GENERIC kernel doesn't understand where is root filesystem. > > What I did are: > [ procedure deleted ] > > It seems that something goes wrong in setrootbyname(). Any clues? > > P.S.: I've also tried with 4-stable kernel, and it goes pretty well. I've been doing something similar with the latest code in -stable and have got it working very well. My purposes are varied, but I'm mainly experimenting with setting up a cd-rom based firewall device using a more traditional layout as opposed to the picobsd methods. -Brian -- Brian Dean bsd@FreeBSD.org bsd@bsdhome.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message