Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 13:05:51 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is there a way to prompt for boot device? Message-ID: <19970920130551.DB36336@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199709200219.WAA13122@smoke.marlboro.vt.us>; from john hood on Sep 19, 1997 22:19:30 -0400 References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970919174919.20260V-100000@mail.cdsnet.net> <199709200219.WAA13122@smoke.marlboro.vt.us>
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As john hood wrote: > > I thought the -r or -a options would do it, but that's not quite what I > > expected. Btw., -r does it in some way: it will use the root device the kernel has been configured for (``kernel root on sd8''). > at least in 2.2.2, boot -a works only if you have the kernel > configured with "swap generic", which i think is not generally > recommended, though i can't remember why. For hysterical raisons? What the heck would break if we started shipping GENERIC in 3.0 with `swap generic'? What might break if we allowed -a for other kernels as well? I assume the answer to both questions is just ``nothing''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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