I looked thru man options as well as the generic kernel config file -
couldn't find anything that tells it where the root device is. What should
I be looking for?
Thx, Andy

>On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 08:07:26AM -0800, Andy wrote:
>> I installed NetBSD 1.4.1 on an external 2 GB  Seagate ( the  machine is
>> Beige G3 266)
>> now at startup it always asks me for root device. This is before rc script
>> is run.
>> The messages I see:
>> wswcons: wskbd0 glued to wdisplay0 ( console)
>> boot device: <unknown>
>> root device: - I enter sd0a
>> dump device: (default sd0b) - <enter>
>> file system( default generic)) - <enter>
>> root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
>>
>> .... blah blah, boot continues as advertised.
>>
>> One thing I find strange is that it refrers to my disk SCSI ID 4 as sd0 .
>> Shouldn't it be sd4 ?
>
>Nope. sd? ids are assigned by order of drives in the chain. I'll
>presume your disk is on the external chain, which gets scanned before
>the internal chain, which is why it gets sd0.
>
>This seems a bit more logical as far as allocation of ids goes (first
>drive gets 0, second 1, so forth), but it is a bit counter-intuitive
>when used with the bass-ackwards way SCSI ids work.
>
>As far as having to tell it the root device at startup, you can pin
>this down in a custom kernel config... but it should just assume the
>correct thing based on something you set when installing (but I don't
>remember what)... anyone else?
>
>       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net