From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 19 15:25:54 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24215 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:25:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA24208 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 15:25:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id IAA18629; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:25:35 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36A512CF.370F4E1E@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 08:18:39 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Saunders CC: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting -current with new loader References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Saunders wrote: > > I have had no success in booting -current with the new loader. I can boot > the kernel directly by entering 1:wd(2,a)/kernel at the boot prompt. > However if I enter either 1:wd(1,a)/boot/loader (the default) or > 1:wd(2,a)/boot/loader I get the loader started but the kernel won't boot. > The the second case commands like source and ls don't work unless I set > currdev=disk2s1a: and then it works. I have tried setting rootdev to lots > of things but the kernel _always_ tried to mount wd1s1a as the root > filesystem. It seems to ignore the rootdev flag. The kernel has been built > with "config kernel root on wd2" but even this is ignored. You failed to mention your disk configuration... -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from it, you haven't gotten market rate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message