what should uname -v be telling me here?

[paul beard]

Well, after some headscratching and physical inspection, it looks like
this machine is booting and running from the same physical disk. It
appears I never understood that you could boot from a different device
than the one that was mounted and holding all your data *without
realizing it* or being able to find out (ideally sysctl would reveal
the device that the running kernel was pulled from: if it does, I
can't make it out). It seems there should be some way to specify a
boot device without futzing around in the BIOS or learn what device
has been defined. dmesg doesn't even reveal that, as far as I can
tell. It looks like boot.config might do some or all of what I expect.

I also don't see how I can remove or rewrite just the MBR/bootsector
on disk other than the active disk. If I could do that I could be
reasonably sure I was booting and running from the disk I think I am.
It may be time to stop pretending I know how any of this stuff
actually works.

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> paul beard <paulbeard at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I noticed that uname -a isn't returning what I expect so I deleted and
>> re-pulled a source tree from svn, removed obj, and after a few
>> iterations of rebuilding kernels and removing anything I can think of
>> to resolve this, I'm at a loss.
>
> You're clearly not booting from the same kernel that shows up as
> /boot/kernel/kernel, so it sounds as though you're booting from
> a different partition than whatever is showing up as /boot/kernel
> once the system is up.
>
> Look at your disk partitioning. Also, make sure that you aren't
> mounting something on top of /boot in your /etc/fstab.



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Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/