Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 10:29:23 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: 2.1.5-R kernel root on sd0 fails Message-ID: <199612130929.KAA17585@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612130722.SAA24286@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Dec 13, 96 06:22:41 pm"
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As Bruce Evans wrote: > >No, it ain't broken. The root device is _intended_ to be > >automatically changed to the device where the system has been booted > >from... > > It would be nice if the entries in /etc/fstab for the boot device were > automatically changed. I keep a backup root file system on a removable > (zip) drive and the drive number is often wrong when I need it. This is a chicken-and-egg problem, isn't it? The root file system must be mounted first (and _that_'s the operation that fails), in order to change the fstab. Changing the fstab could perhaps be made by some clever trickery in /etc/rc, but it's certainly not easy to cover all cases. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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