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Subject: Re: Kernel boot from EFI partition. How to point real root
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On Apr 10, 2006, at 2:26 AM, Alexander Zatserkovniy wrote:

> Hi!
>
> HP-RX2600 (2xItanium2)
>
>
>
> EFI loader, kernel has copied from Live CD on EFI partition. Loaders
> "lsdev" show only EFI partition. So in currdev, rootdev I can point  
> only
> it.
>
> Kernel loading and I get prompt to point root partition by hand. Put
> ufs:ad0s2b at the prompt and system loaded.
>
> Is a way to point ad0s2b as parameter for the kernel?

Just create a file called loader.conf and add the following line to it:
vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/da0s2b"

Put the file where the loader.efi binary is.

FYI,

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  Marcel Moolenaar         USPA: A-39004          marcel@xcllnt.net