any real documentation of the boot2 prompt?

[Jo Rhett]

Suleiman Souhlal wrote:
> Jo Rhett wrote:
>> So I've been searching for hours now, and it appears that short of
>>  reading the C code, there's no documentation of the boot2 menu
>> prompt.
>> 
>> Sure, it says drive:driver(unit,slice,part)
>> 
>> But no combination of those three that I can find actually works.
>> 
>> There's two LUNs: drive 0: single 2TB slice drive 1: 264GB, with
>> root, swap, etc
>> 
>> How do I tell boot2 to find the loader on disk1?

> Take a look at boot(8).

I did.  Really.  That's what I'm complaining about.

> I think you need to specify the file to load: 1:da(1,a)/boot/loader

No, you can just specify the device and it will load the default kernel
from that.  Or you can specify the device and use ? and it will show you
a list of files.  But if you can't figure out the device name...?

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