Martin Husemann writes:
> What do you think? Better naming suggestion also welcome.
IMHO, root autoconfiguration should be limited to take effect only when
booted device is included in its components. Since the current behavior
is suprising and inconvinient (I sometimes boot system from pxeboot
> Martin Husemann writes:
>
> > What do you think? Better naming suggestion also welcome.
>
> IMHO, root autoconfiguration should be limited to take effect only when
> booted device is included in its components. Since the current behavior
> is suprising and inconvinient (I sometimes boot syst
Martin Husemann wrote:
> as described in PR 44774 (see
> http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=44774), it is
> currently not possible to use a standard NetBSD install CD on a system
> wich normally boots from raid (at least on i386, amd64 or sparc64, where
> a stock GENERIC ker
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:06:23PM +0200, Klaus . Heinz wrote:
> Instead of providing RB_NO_ROOT_OVERRIDE I would prefer something that
> actually _lets_ me override everything else from boot.cfg.
Yes, I understand this wish (and it is not that hard to implement).
However, I think both are quite o
> Note that especially for the install CD setup, a rootstring passed from
> boot.cfg is *not* possible, as we do not know which CD drive is used
> for booting.
FYI, see also PR port-i386/39998 and x86_autoconf.c:
>> /*
>> * XXX
>> *
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:06:21PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> I.e. currently only root on cd0a works on x86 GENERIC anyway.
One more bug to fix, but unrelated to this thread, isn't it?
See also PR 43012.
Martin
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:59:32PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> I thought passing "root on cd0a" from boot.cfg just worked on x86..
Maybe, but I'm not talking about x86 only.
Martin
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:06:23 +0200
"Klaus . Heinz" wrote:
> Martin Husemann wrote:
>
> > as described in PR 44774 (see
> > http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=44774),
> > it is currently not possible to use a standard NetBSD install CD on
> > a system wich normally boots fr
> > I.e. currently only root on cd0a works on x86 GENERIC anyway.
>
> One more bug to fix, but unrelated to this thread, isn't it?
> See also PR 43012.
I thought passing "root on cd0a" from boot.cfg just worked on x86..
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Izumi Tsutsui
Hello Martin. Doesn't boot -a already do this by allowing you to
select the root filesystem and the init path? I'm certain I've booted
systems running with raid roots off of cdroms for repair purposes.
-Brian
On Apr 18, 7:41am, Martin Husemann wrote:
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On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:32:59AM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> Hello Martin. Doesn't boot -a already do this by allowing you to
> select the root filesystem and the init path? I'm certain I've booted
> systems running with raid roots off of cdroms for repair purposes.
Yes, it does, but i
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