Subject: Re: Floopy-boot a productive system (in other terms: Is it possible to change the /-device after booting off a floopy disk ?)
To: Mark Anton <anton@ilg.uni-stuttgart.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-macppc
Date: 07/18/2002 15:26:07
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:05:42PM +0200, Mark Anton wrote:
> Hello Gurus,
>
> I have a 266-MHz-PowerMacintosh G 3 which I would like to use under NetBSD/macppc.Since I have tried all the tips and tricks from the various Port sources,
> I would like to know, whether it is possible to put a kernel with hard-coded
> /-device on a floppy and access the device after it has been initially
> made accessible via the kernel on the floppy.
> This means, that after booting the kernel off the floppy disk, there should not
> the virtual memory filesystem be mounted as /, but /dev/wd0a, which is a part
> of a "whole-disk"-partition scheme
>
> Any opinion/advice etc. on this is highly appreciated.
It's possible. Just change
config netbsd root on ? type ?
to e.g
config netbsd root on wd0a type ?
in your kernel config file, and rebuild a kernel.
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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