Date: Sun, 12 Dec 1999 16:31:30 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha multiboot: is it possible? Message-ID: <199912130031.QAA04415@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Dec 1999 14:00:42 PST." <XFMail.991212140042.jdp@polstra.com>
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> I have an Alpha with one disk and two root filesystems. The root > filesystems are on da0a and da0f. I want to be able to boot either > one, but I can't seem to find the magic recipe to boot from da0f. > >From man loader, I would expect this to work at the loader prompt: > > unload > set currdev=disk0f > set rootdev=disk0f > load /kernel > boot > > That loads the correct kernel (the one on da0f) but the kernel still > thinks its root filesystem is da0a. I tried adding > > set boot_askname > > and (next try) > > set boot_askname=true > > in an attempt to get the kernel to let me tell it which root > filesystem to use. That had no effect. I also tried adding "-a" to > the boot command, again with no effect. > > Is this just broken, or am I doing something wrong? I just got a report that $rootdev doesn't parse correctly without a trailing ':', and indeed the original design was for the trailing colon to be mandatory. Under -current you shouldn't have to set $rootdev at all, as the loader should pick up the contents of /etc/fstab. -- \\ 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-alpha" in the body of the message
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