Re: bootloader issue

["T. Makinen" <tjamaloo%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:17 AM, David Ross <dross%pobox.com@localhost> wrote:
> With regard to loadbsd -- what's the full command line you're using?
> According to docs Frank Lukas sent me, the -a option just loads to
> multi-user mode.  I haven't tried it yet, but I assume you'll need to
> somehow specify that the root filesystem should be loaded from the hard
> drive.
>
> The loadbsd method sounds like a good workaround, but it would be great if
> we can get to a point where it's possible to boot NetBSD directly off of the
> HD.

I have kernels on my IDE disk and NetBSD installation on SCSI disk. For me
it's enough to load kernel with just -a flag (it founds root on sd0a).
If needed you should be able to use -b flag in addition to specify root device
on boot.

-Tuomo