Re: still upgrading from 2.0 to 7.0

[Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh%nimenees.com@localhost>]

On August 19, 2016 7:47:36 AM EDT, steve%prd.co.uk@localhost wrote:
>So I installed new bootbocks and new boot code.   What I need to do
>now is force the system to boot from /dev/wd0a, swap to /dev/wd0b and
>use /sbin/init without needing console interaction.    What it does at
>present at the end of the hardware probe (still in green screen) is
>say that the boot device is unknown, then prompts for a root device
>with /dev/ld0a as the default.    If I disable ld* in autoconf then
>the system proceeds to boot normally.   Here is the relevant bit of
...
>It must surely be possible to specify root and swap partitions
>somewhere in a configuration file.   But I have read and reread so
>many man pages now that I think I must just be missing something
>terroibly obvious.

It doesn't appear to be possible, but is disabling ld* works then you should be able to add that to boot.cfg as:

   userconf disable ld*

If you build a custom kernel you can specify it there, but that's a bit of a pain, and easy to forget the next time you update.

Eric