Re: root+swap device

Jochen Kunz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2003.01.08 23:00 Jesse Peterson wrote:

> I successfully got the 1.5 snapshot from this past summer (2002) 
> installed on a 43P. 
Why not 1.6?

> It boots off the disk and loads and starts the 
> kernel.  Unfortunately it stops there and asks for the root device and
> swap device.  Is there a way (i'm assuming it's a kernel option or 
> something) to tell it each time it boots where the root and swap are?
NetBSD-prep is currently unable to determine the root-device. You need
to recompile the kernel and hardcode the root-device in the kernel
config. Somthing like:
config  netbsd  root on sd0 type ?
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tschüß,
         Jochen

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