misc/172413: Boot "loader" should accept additional parameters

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

The following reply was made to PR misc/172413; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Andrey V. Elsukov" <bu7cher at yandex.ru>
To: Zbigniew <zbigniew2011 at gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/172413: Boot "loader" should accept additional parameters
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:18:49 +0400

 On 07.10.2012 01:41, Zbigniew wrote:
 > Installed recently FreeBSD 9.0 - and I've got a problem: while
 > booting, "loader" somehow gets incorrect currdevice value, stopping
 > boot process. It does get "disk1s6a", but it should be "disk1s7a"
 > ("lsdev" reports such number). I can boot system, when I set currdev
 > "manually", then type "boot". Of course, loader won't read its config
 > files, when not having access to root directory. Having multiple
 > OS-es on HDD, I'm using GRUB for booting. My FreeBSD section looks
 > like:
 
 Hi,
 
 it seems your problem is similar to one described in the
 	http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=158358
 
 Can you try the loader(8) binary from the FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT?
 You can get it from a snapshot:
 	https://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/
 
 -- 
 WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov