Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 19:16:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Oliver Lehmann <Kai_Allard_Liao@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Message-ID: <200103070316.f273GCL04322@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Mar 2001 03:55:18 %2B0100." <16906.983933718@www9.gmx.net>
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> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 03:18:28 +0100 (MET)
> Oliver Lehmann <Kai_Allard_Liao@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > options ROOTDEVNAME=\"ufs:da0s1a\"
>
> i've tryed this on my i386 system at home wit ad0s1a but that does not work,
> why? i've create a "boot.config" at my disk wit -r inside and reboot. but
> the kernel trys to mount fd0c but WHY ? i dont understand it.. i've spcified
> the ROOTDEVNAME in the kernel staticly...
ROOTDEVNAME is an ultimate fallback unless you boot with the '-r' flag.
ie. 'boot -r' will always use the compiled-in ROOTDEVNAME. If you don't
specify '-r', ROOTDEVNAME is only used if both the /etc/fstab check and
the fallbacks (determined by where the kernel was booted from, etc.) all
fail. In your case, you have a UFS filesystem on fd0, so one of the
fallbacks is succeeding. This wouldn't be the case on an Alpha, since
the SRM disk interface is all weird and stuff.
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