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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:15265 comp.unix.internals:7958 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.hk.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!news.cerf.net!ccnet.com!ccnet.com!not-for-mail From: jantypas@ccnet.com (John Antypas) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.internals Subject: What happens at BSD boot sequence (root fs) Date: 9 Nov 1994 10:11:27 -0800 Organization: CCnet Communications Lines: 29 Message-ID: <39r3cf$88l@ccnet.ccnet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ccnet Good morning! Because of an issue with drive sizes and multiple OS environments, I find myself needing to understand what happens at BSD bootup. In my case, this is BSDI 1.1. What I would LIKE to do is: sd0 Two paritions 350M dos (Yes, I know :-) 100M BSDI sd0a /root (minimal) and /tmp sd0b swap 60M sd0d points to DOS FS sd1 Single partition sd0a 400M /root sd0g 600M /usr2 Here's the catch. I have to boot off sd0 on a minimal root fs and somehow switch to the real root on sd1. I gather this can be done beacuse during a kernel config, I have to specify the root and swap fs locations. The question is, during the boot, the system will go to my kernel and then do what. Does it just read off of /bsd and then find the new root and swap fs locations? -- John Antypas@21st Century Softwware (jantypas@soft21.s21.com) "God is too busy to create chaos and disorder in this world, he can't be everywhere at once all of the time, That's why he made two year olds" "No -- two year olds don't go everywhere at once either -- but they DO have transporters""