Re: bootup question - NetBSD on Netwinder

Simon Burge <[email protected]> Sun, 8 Sep 2002 00:11:39 +1000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.arm32
Organization	Wasabi Systems, Inc.
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 03:47:29PM +0200, Stefan Wuerthner wrote:

> how can I avoid entering manually the name of the boot device, dump device
> and file system during bootup on a Netwinder.
> 
> Can it be defined somewhere?

You can set the root device in your kernel config file.  Change the

	config netbsd root on ? type ?

line to

	config netbsd root on <ethernetdev> type nfs

where <ethernetdev> matches whatever you want the boot device to be.

Simon.
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