Kernel boot from EFI partition. How to point real root partition?

[Alexander Zatserkovniy]

Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
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> On Apr 10, 2006, at 2:26 AM, Alexander Zatserkovniy wrote:
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>> Hi!
>>
>> HP-RX2600 (2xItanium2)
>>
>>
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>> EFI loader, kernel has copied from Live CD on EFI partition. Loaders
>> "lsdev" show only EFI partition. So in currdev, rootdev I can point only
>> it.
>>
>> Kernel loading and I get prompt to point root partition by hand. Put
>> ufs:ad0s2b at the prompt and system loaded.
>>
>> Is a way to point ad0s2b as parameter for the kernel?
>
> Just create a file called loader.conf and add the following line to it:
> vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/da0s2b"
>
> Put the file where the loader.efi binary is.
>
> FYI,
>
> -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel at xcllnt.net
>
It works! Thanks!

Alexander Zatserkovniy