root_disk_unit

Attila Nagy bra at fsn.hu
Sun Apr 13 04:46:46 PDT 2003


Hello,

> 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 mean under CURRENT.

> You might want to try setting root_disk_unit at the ok prompt.
That's what I tried first. It does not work, the kernel mounted da0s1a,
not da1s1a. I had to specify ROOTDEVNAME in the kernel conf, but that's
not as flexible as root_disk_unit.

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