From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Feb 3 19:40: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cumin.apnic.net (cumin.apnic.net [202.12.29.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 949FC37B41A for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2002 19:40:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from apnic.net (hadrian.apnic.net [202.12.29.249]) by cumin.apnic.net (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g143YoKa018949; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:34:50 +1000 To: David Wolfskill Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to tell the kernel to use mfs in loader In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Feb 2002 19:31:47 -0800." <200202040331.g143Vlf54932@bunrab.catwhisker.org> Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 13:39:54 +1000 Message-ID: <5447.1012793994@apnic.net> From: George Michaelson X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tnaks David, if all I wanted to do was install, Indeed I would hack or better yet, wait until tomorrow when I can get my CD drive. I'm more interested in how I can tell the boot-time loader process to tell the kernel not to auto-mount the root device from hard disk, when it has a perfectly good mfsroot image I just wrote into memory! -George To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message