root_disk_unit

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Apr 12 20:05:55 PDT 2003


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.

You might want to try setting root_disk_unit at the ok prompt.

Warner


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