From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 30 12:09:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA20006 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:09:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA20001 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:09:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01740; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:09:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810302009.MAA01740@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The new bootloader - how do you set it up? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 21:06:31 +0100." <19981030210631.A29433@bank-pedersen.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 12:09:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 > > > > 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