Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:27:00 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?V=E1clav_Haisman?= <v.haisman@sh.cvut.cz> To: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt? Message-ID: <45A78CA4.30903@sh.cvut.cz> In-Reply-To: <E22808FA-5C42-443E-AA32-0DA3247077AC@svcolo.com> References: <E22808FA-5C42-443E-AA32-0DA3247077AC@svcolo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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? > > 1:da(1,a) > 1:da(1,1,a) > 1:da(0,1,a) > 1:da(0,a) > 0:da(1,a) > 0:da(0,a) > ...etc none of them work. > > --Jo Rhett > senior geek > Silicon Valley Colocation > What does lsdev or whatever it was say? Does it show any devices besides the raw disks? I had similar problem with ASUS Vintage-PE1 hardware. It never showed any devices to boot except two raw disks (I had GEOM Mirror setup). And I never found a way to work around this. -- VH [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEVAwUBRaeMpENOZDESBK8FAQLjIQf/fpIq2ZwpHgIXvJchCxBZPizmwLYdNI0M yvgOBlZsYYiMwcmo1eaNh8wSWu7BovRfEDPHIn9203r3m1teRH+GlREI0CoW6k86 zcqCZYqKDEaNBZCjyCuaST8QeZLhe9+gWSwNuJ9HEE8trzaqkchArSGx8HXSdNml HVdWNrBG0BKi5+qmUhf+2iXOsmWszDRkO+rtYarCvITSINe5k/FwJAze/x3/dIMp MlDEdHDdIlw/HSFsrKkZviffQGcACfCJBcDmMyXvdA8tysenGYURVYBzfcId8Fyg JvyxdlvqKiu0TED52yaITO1n4D+sAAo+ntp39vADS4z2BX49CZqiaw== =xVc1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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