From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 09:06:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0C216A412 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:06:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Received: from kininvie.sv.svcolo.com (kininvie.sv.svcolo.com [64.13.135.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67BDB13C45E for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:06:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Received: from [172.16.12.22] (covad-jrhett.meer.net [209.157.140.144]) (authenticated bits=0) by kininvie.sv.svcolo.com (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l0C96f3O092233; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:06:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrhett@svcolo.com) Message-ID: <45A74FA0.3030203@svcolo.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:06:40 -0800 From: Jo Rhett Organization: Silicon Valley Colocation User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Suleiman Souhlal References: <45A73734.6050507@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <45A73734.6050507@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: undef - SENDER Whitelisted (jrhett@svcolo.com: Mail from user authenticated via SMTP AUTH allowed always) X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Canit-Stats-ID: 43710 - cffc9487008c X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 64.13.135.12 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:06:41 -0000 Suleiman Souhlal wrote: > Jo Rhett wrote: >> So I've been searching for hours now, and it appears that short of >> reading the C code, there's no documentation of the boot2 menu >> prompt. >> >> Sure, it says drive:driver(unit,slice,part) >> >> But no combination of those three that I can find actually works. >> >> There's two LUNs: drive 0: single 2TB slice drive 1: 264GB, with >> root, swap, etc >> >> How do I tell boot2 to find the loader on disk1? > Take a look at boot(8). I did. Really. That's what I'm complaining about. > I think you need to specify the file to load: 1:da(1,a)/boot/loader No, you can just specify the device and it will load the default kernel from that. Or you can specify the device and use ? and it will show you a list of files. But if you can't figure out the device name...? -- Jo Rhett senior geek Silicon Valley Colocation