Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:17:45 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Also interested in testing Message-ID: <3E547309.F538CED9@freebsd.org> References: <5035103.1045689625512.JavaMail.nobody@fozzie.psp.pas.earthlink.net> <15955.63196.87405.422505@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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> In fact, when I was playing with this, the loader couldn't really pass > the root device to the kernel either, since you need to specify the > root device in OFW syntax (<30 chars or so of hex and device names>), > not FreeBSD syntax (ad0s10). So in either case, the kernel would > stop and ask for its root. This has to be fixed, but in the meantime, at the loader prompt you can issue something like: > set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:ad0s11 and then boot. later, Peter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ppc" in the body of the message
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