sucessful install

[Ryan J.Taylor]

On Apr 27, 2004, at 2:58 PM, David Leimbach wrote:

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> On Apr 27, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Ryan J.Taylor wrote:
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>> On Apr 27, 2004, at 12:30 PM, Lawrence Cornell wrote:
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>>> 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

Yes, FreeBSD has that and you can stick it in loader.conf (if needed).  
I've been booting without a loader.conf altogether.