On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:48:42 +0530 "Tapan Chaudhari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is not exactly what I wanted. I will try to elaborate myself. > I am creating my own device which will act as a new boot slice which must be > mounted as '/'. New device will process i/o calls and then redirect the i/o > calls to original device of '/'. Now since I cannot unmount '/' and mount it > again with my new device while system is running, I will have to find a way > to tell kernel to mount my new device as '/' from next time onwards it > boots. > does anyone have suggestions on this? That's pretty much exactly what vfs.root.mountfrom does. Edit /boot/loader.conf to add a line: vfs.root_mountfrom="fstype:devicespec" and you're good to go. The kernel will boot from your default root partition, then remount root using the value of that variable. I.e. - I set mine to "zfs:internal/root" to boot my system to a zfs root. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
