Re: Boot partition
Sad Clouds <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64 |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 23:12:40 +0200 Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 09:42:01PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote: > > What's the best way to tell booting kernel where root file system is > > located? Can this be done dynamically or do I need to recompile > > kernel? > > You hit an itching spot. Currently the easiest way is to put ofwboot > and the kernel into the boot partition and create a custom kernel with > > config netbsd root on wd0a > > in the config file. OK thanks, I'll try to configure it the way you described. By the way wd0 is attached to a PCI IDE card, not the onboard IDE controller. I think this should work.