Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:01:25 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [loader?] secret to setting root elsewhere?. Message-ID: <3A70B045.C4226CE1@elischer.org> References: <200101252048.f0PKmZ801414@mass.dis.org>
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Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > Ok so I have tried the settings in
> > teh loader conf..
> > I have:
> >
> > #autoboot_delay="10" # Delay in seconds before autobooting
> > #console="vidconsole" # Set the current console
> > currdev="disk1s1a" # Set the current device
> > module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules" # Set the module search path
> > #prompt="\\${interpret}" # Set the command prompt
> > root_disk_unit="1" # Force the root disk unit number
> > rootdev="disk1s1a" # Set the root filesystem
> >
> >
> > but it still loads disk0 as root..
> >
> > what am I doing wrong?
>
> You don't "load a disk as root".
>
> If you mean "it loads the kernel from the wrong place", that's one thing.
> If you mean "it mounts / from the wrong filesystem", then you should be
> aware that the loader reads /etc/fstab, and the kernel will mount
> whatever you've put in there.
YUUUKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!
I'm specifying a different place because the place where fstab is is SCREWED!!!!
but it will let me do what I want.
>
> root_disk_unit is also deprecated.
>
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