From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 19 22:52:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA13486 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:52:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nhj.nlc.net.au (nhj.nlc.net.au [203.24.133.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA13478 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:52:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john.saunders@nlc.net.au) Received: (qmail 9756 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Jan 1999 17:52:42 +1100 Date: 20 Jan 1999 17:52:42 +1100 Message-ID: <19990120065242.9754.qmail@nhj.nlc.net.au> From: "John Saunders" To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting -current with new loader X-Newsgroups: nlc.lists.freebsd-current In-Reply-To: User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980818 ("Laura") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.36 (i686)) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wrote: > I'm off now to play now with rootdev and boot_askname. Well, if I let the standard boot process occur, then I stop the loader and set rootdev=disk3s1a: I can get the kernel running in single user mode but mount refuses to remount / as rw. It's curious that the message about changing the root device doesn't occur, time for debug output in the kernel. BTW boot_askname doesn't :-) I read some comments in the kernel source to the effect "maybe we should prompt for a boot device here" so I didn't expect it to work. The next option is configuring my master drive on the secondary interface as wd1 instead of wd2. I'm not sure about anybody else here, but to my mind a "Winblows on C: drive and let's try out FreeBSD on the second disk" configuration should really be supported seamlessly. The option of putting the second drive as slave on the primary interface would work, however anybody that knows anything about IDE (read somebdy interested in trying FreeBSD) would put it on the second interface for speed reasons. Cheers. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ . | John Saunders - mailto:john@nlc.net.au (EMail) | ,--_|\ | - http://www.nlc.net.au/ (WWW) | / Oz \ | - 02-9489-4932 or 041-822-3814 (Phone) | \_,--\_/ | NHJ NORTHLINK COMMUNICATIONS - Supplying a professional, | v | and above all friendly, internet connection service. | +------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message