how to find out the boot device
Jan Pechanec
jp at devnull.cz
Fri Aug 26 20:41:56 GMT 2005
hello guys,
during the rc.d phase, I need to find out in a shell script from
which disk the system has booted up.
- I cannot use kern.rootdev because my root fs is a memory disk
- I cannot use kern.disks because the first disk there doesn't
necessarily mean the boot disk (eg. my home box says 'cd0 ad0' for that)
- I could use 'atacontrol list' or 'camcontrol devlist' because I
always boot from the 1st disk, but if I have both types of disks then I have
1st ATA disk and 1st SCSI disk and again unable to recognize which one is
the one I need.
any ideas, please?
thank you, j.
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Jan Pechanec <jp (at) devnull (dot) cz>
http://www.devnull.cz
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