On 5/30/2025 3:36 AM, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 12:53:08AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: >> On 5/29/2025 5:20 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: >> > On 5/29/2025 3:23 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote: >> >> On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 03:01:50PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: >> >>> [...] >> >>> When I pass bootdev=dk12 in boot.cfg, the bootloader strangely tries dk1 >> >>> as root >> >>> (which is wrong) and correctly detects dk11 as the dump device. But it >> >>> never >> >>> gives me the chance to enter the correct root device and instead tries >> >>> to load >> >>> init which of course it cannot find the NetBSD init on dk1 because dk1 >> >>> is not >> >>> the correct NetBSD root device. In fact on this box a Linux distro is >> >>> installed >> >>> on dk1, as evidenced by the filesystem type detected on dk1: ext2fs. >> >> >> >> Hum this could be a bug is the boot argiment parsing. I don't have more >> >> than >> >> 9 partitions on my disks and root=dkX works in my case. >> >> So I just noticed you said root=dkX works in your case. >> >> The Wiki suggests that root=dkX is an outdated, old form that is >> deprecated, so I never tried it and I only tried bootdev=dkX. >> >> So, does bootdev=dkX also work in your case? > > Yes > >> >> Does the code really distinguish between root=dkX and bootdev=dkX? > > The code handling root= and bootdev= is the same >
Thanks for clarifying this!
