From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 14:17: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F6FB37B479 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 2000 14:16:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eA7MGjB15695; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:16:47 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 09:16:44 +1100 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: Dave Swegen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Specifying boot device in kernel In-Reply-To: <20001106144150.C28856@software.plasmon> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Dave Swegen wrote: > Hi! I've got a problem at the moment that has popped up during the > process of moving over to 4.1. In our old (3.0 based) kernel, one of the > options we gave was 'config kernel root on vn0' to tell the kernel to > boot from an mfs located in the kernel. > > If I try and include that line in the kernel config now, I'm told by > config that that option is obsolete, but I've been unable to find out > what the 4.1 equivalent is. > Look in LINT for the ROOTDEVNAME option. > Any help will be much appreciated. > > Cheers > Dave > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message