Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:22:28 -0800 From: Suleiman Souhlal <ssouhlal@FreeBSD.org> To: Jo Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any real documentation of the boot2 prompt? Message-ID: <45A73734.6050507@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <E22808FA-5C42-443E-AA32-0DA3247077AC@svcolo.com>
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Jo Rhett wrote: > So I've been searching for hours now, and it appears that short of > reading the C code, there's no documentation of the boot2 menu prompt. > > Sure, it says drive:driver(unit,slice,part) > > But no combination of those three that I can find actually works. > > There's two LUNs: > drive 0: single 2TB slice > drive 1: 264GB, with root, swap, etc > > How do I tell boot2 to find the loader on disk1? > > 1:da(1,a) > 1:da(1,1,a) > 1:da(0,1,a) > 1:da(0,a) > 0:da(1,a) > 0:da(0,a) > ...etc none of them work. Take a look at boot(8). I think you need to specify the file to load: 1:da(1,a)/boot/loader -- Suleimanhome | help
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