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From: bouyer@ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Floppy booting aha1510
Date: 12 Dec 1994 22:06:31 GMT
Organization: Techniques Avancees, Paris
Lines: 26
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3cihh7$pm9@ici-paris.ensta.fr>
References: <3cibh7$j61@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: bsdtest.ensta.fr
Keywords: NetBSD 1.0
To: reink@neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool)

In article <3cibh7$j61@hpscit.sc.hp.com>, reink@neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool) writes:
> I have a scsi hd connected to an aha1510 scsi controller. The
> aha1510 has no BIOS so you cant boot off it directly. But so
> I figured, why not boot a kernel off the floppy, but use sd0
> (the scsi hd on the 1510) as root.
>   So I configured a kernel with the following line in the config
> file
> 
> config	netbsd root on sd0 swap on sd0
> 
> compiled it, copied it onto a floppy and booted. After the
> kernel is loaded it asks "Insert filesystem floppy" so i
> just pressed enter. 
> 
> BUT
>   instead of using the configured sd0 as root it uses the
> floppy as root. Why doesn't this work the way I think it
> should work?

Type '-r' at the boot prompt, to tell the kernel to take the default root
( the one which is set in the config file) instead of the boot device.

--
Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris
email: bouyer@ensta.fr
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