Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 18:35:45 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: Lou Katz <pi@metron.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Root on USB stick Message-ID: <20160608183545.37198952@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <20160606063242.GA9594@metron.com> References: <20160606063242.GA9594@metron.com>
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Hi, On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 23:32:42 -0700 Lou Katz <pi@metron.com> wrote: > Where does the FreeBSD boot loader for Pi2 know about or find out > where the root partition is? I need to boot from an image in the > micro slot that I cannot remove (because I broke the push-pull > mechanism) but use a root parition on another card accessed through a > USB port. > > There seems to have been a way to do this with FreeBSD 10, but I > cannot find it in FreeBSD 11. > > Thank you there is an entry in the kernel configuration file where to find root by default. But you would need a custom kernel for this. Erich
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