root_disk_unit

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Apr 12 22:53:52 PDT 2003


In message: <20030412.210515.27187828.imp at bsdimp.com>
            "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
: In message: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0304121831490.32409 at scribble.fsn.hu>
:             Attila Nagy <bra at fsn.hu> writes:
: : Hello,
: : 
: : Is it possible that the root_disk_unit variable doesn't work in CURRENT?
: : I am trying with a CURRENT from 10, April without the effects it should
: : provide.
: : 
: : Already tried set root_disk_unit="1" in the loader and the
: : root_disk_unit="1" in /boot/loader.conf and /boot/defaults/loader.conf.
: : 
: : The machine boots from da0, it doesn't care about this variable.
: : 
: : What did I do wrong?
: 
: I know that on -stable, setting root_disk_unit=2 in /boot/loader.conf
: allows us to boot off of 'ad2' on some of the embedded boxes that have
: a CF slot on them that is ad2...  However, I've not tried this on
: stable.
^^^^^^^^^
current.  I've not tried it on 5.0-current in a long long time.

Warner


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