sucessful install

David Leimbach leimy2k at mac.com
Tue Apr 27 11:58:32 PDT 2004


On Apr 27, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Ryan J.Taylor wrote:

>
> On Apr 27, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Lawrence Cornell wrote:
>
>> I caught that email last night, but looking at the
>> bootup log it didn't look like to me that it booted up
>> to the point of anything but single user mode..
>> correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Both loader and the kernel came from my tftp server.  After specifying 
> root manually it does boot to multiuser.  I could probably stick an 
> /etc/fstab on the boot server and have the Mac mount root on its own.  
> The alternative would be interrupting loader and having it load the 
> kernel from disk (I think that works?).

Does FreeBSD have this?  I have this on my DragonFlyBSD box.

vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/ad1s1a"

That may work in the loader.conf

Dave



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