From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 25 15:20:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.internet.dk (ns.internet.dk [194.19.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D834E37B6DC; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:19:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.internet.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with UUCP id f0PNJhg02911; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:19:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from gina (gina.neland.dk [192.168.0.14]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.11.1/8.11.0) with SMTP id f0PNJPx22417; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:19:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Message-ID: <010a01c08725$41cf0580$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> Reply-To: "Leif Neland" From: "Leif Neland" To: "Mike Smith" Cc: References: <200101252048.f0PKmZ801414@mass.dis.org> Subject: Re: [loader?] secret to setting root elsewhere?. Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:19:22 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. > Just curious, but isn't there a checken-and-egg problem here? If there is two complete systems, on each disk. If the root on disc 0 contains an /etc/fstab showing root to be mounted from disk 0, and the root on disk 1 contains an /etc/fstab showing root to be mounted from disk 1? How is it then possible to mount the root on disk 1? Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message