From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 7 13:12:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE44716A4CE; Fri, 7 May 2004 13:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C74543D5E; Fri, 7 May 2004 13:12:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by ns1.xcllnt.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i47KCDoD023857; Fri, 7 May 2004 13:12:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@piii.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) i47KCDc4031739; Fri, 7 May 2004 13:12:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i47KC9RU031738; Fri, 7 May 2004 13:12:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel) Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 13:12:09 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20040507201209.GA31711@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <200405061012.25031.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040506163429.GA18447@ns1.xcllnt.net> <200405071519.26758.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200405071519.26758.jhb@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Muthu_T@Dell.com cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 20040502 snapshot + Dell PE3250 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 20:12:15 -0000 On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 03:19:26PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: *snip* > However, the > loader doesn't tell the kernel what filesystem to mount as root, so I always > have to manually enter in 'ufs:/dev/da0p2' at the mountroot prompt. Does the > mountroot tunable have to be specified in loader.conf for all ia64 machines > or does /etc/fstab need to be copied to /efi/etc/fstab or something? The tunable must be used because there's currently no way to mark a partition as root, so it cannot be determined automaticly yet. It's something sysinstall needs to put in loader.conf. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net