Re: root+swap device

Jochen Kunz wrote:
> 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?

Well, I just havn't had any time.  =)
The installation was done in the summer, and the box has been extremely 
stable.  I actualy didn't know that 1.6-release contained PReP.  I 
thought it wasn't stable enough for a release.  Curious also that it 
doesn't contain documentation in ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/prep.

> 
> 
>>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 ?

That's what I figured.  Thanks, I'll have to look in the documentation 
on how to build a NetBSD kernel and wait the hours+ it'll take on this 
133mhz beast. =)


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