/boot like linux!

[Jesse Guardiani]

Kevin Kinsey wrote:

> Jesse Guardiani wrote:
> 
> <snip snip>
> 
>>Anyway, that worked. The kernel boots now, but it prompts
>>me at the beginning of the rc process for the root device.
>>I give it:
>>
>>ufs:ad1s1d
>>
>>Which is my / partition, and it boots successfully.
>>Is it possible to automate this process so that the loader
>>knows to use ad1s1d as my root device?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>  
>>
> 
> Please note that I'm a "fellow newb", and don't take this
> as if it were from an authoritative source (other than whoever
> I'm quoting...)
> 
> from boot(8):
> 
>   "Make note of the fact that /boot.config is read only from the `a'
>   parti-
>      tion.  As a result, slices which are missing an `a' parition
> require user
>      intervention during the boot process."

I am under the impression that boot.config is optional. It doesn't
exist on either of my 5.3 systems.


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