From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 13:49:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA11212 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:49:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA11206 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:48:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.18]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <17661(2)>; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:42:36 PST Received: from gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com [13.231.133.90]) by www.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA20633; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 16:31:13 -0500 (EST) Received: by gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/client-1.3) id AA14263; Thu, 13 Feb 97 15:55:49 EST Message-Id: <9702132055.AA14263@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: Doug White Cc: Vincent Ramos , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing freebsd In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Feb 1997 23:06:40 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:55:34 PST From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This is fairly normal on combination IDE/SCSI systems. Boot the boot > floppy and type > > sd(0,a)/kernel > > At the boot: prompt, assuming FreeBSD is on the disk identified as sd0. > > Once you get up, rebuild your kernel and change the 'kernel' line in the > configfile to match the location of the kernel. > Wouldn't it be easier to copy the linux method of selecting the root device with rdev when its built into the kernel? Is there a way to specify simple boot options (like root filesystem) without having to rebuild the kernel? -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom