Re: Boot partition

[Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%googlemail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 23:12:40 +0200
Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 09:42:01PM +0100, Sad Clouds wrote:
> > What's the best way to tell booting kernel where root file system is
> > located? Can this be done dynamically or do I need to recompile
> > kernel?
> 
> You hit an itching spot. Currently the easiest way is to put ofwboot
> and the kernel into the boot partition and create a custom kernel with
> 
>  config netbsd root on wd0a
> 
> in the config file.

OK thanks, I'll try to configure it the way you described. By the way
wd0 is attached to a PCI IDE card, not the onboard IDE controller. I
think this should work.