Re: Boot partition

Sad Clouds <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
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.
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