Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:09:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" <ncbp@bank-pedersen.dk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The new bootloader - how do you set it up? Message-ID: <199810302009.MAA01740@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 21:06:31 %2B0100." <19981030210631.A29433@bank-pedersen.dk>
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> On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 08:46:36PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > make world > > > > followed by > > > > disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 -s /boot/boot2 <disk> > > > > will upgrade you completely. The visible parts of the new loader are > > in /boot/loader, and are updated by 'make world'. > > Is the issue with a "changing" bootdevice during boot solved? > I saw some reports on problems when booting from a device that > wouldn't become the root-device -- resulting in "root device > doesn't match mounted device" when remounting "/". > I ask because I am using OS/2 bootloader (installed on wd0) to boot > FreeBSD from da0, and I ran into the abovementioned problem. > ( - could be because I haven't configured wd-support in my kernel (only > M$-stuff there anyway :), but I'd like that to work as well.) You might need to set $rootdev explicitly. You'd have this problem with the old loader too. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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