Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 05:41:38 +0000 From: Tom Vijlbrief <tvijlbrief@gmail.com> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root on USB stick Message-ID: <CAOQrpVdzUjV2mT=vTfw=JjTnVdeBrU2jFFpu9dC7h_7PA-xG6w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20160606063242.GA9594@metron.com>
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Op ma 6 jun. 2016 08:33 schreef Lou Katz <pi@metron.com>: > Where does the FreeBSD boot loader for Pi2 know about or find out > where the root partition is? I need to boot from an image in the > micro slot that I cannot remove (because I broke the push-pull mechanism) > but use a root parition on another card accessed through a USB port. > > There seems to have been a way to do this with FreeBSD 10, but I cannot > find it in FreeBSD 11. > My /boot/loader.conf (on the sd-card root) has vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/ufs/bsd11" to boot from an attached usb stick. You could use eg /dev/da1s1a instead of a UFS label.home | help
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