20040502 snapshot + Dell PE3250

Marcel Moolenaar marcel at xcllnt.net
Fri May 7 13:12:15 PDT 2004


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.

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net


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