Subject: Re: Repost: mVax3100: asks boot & root partition at boot
To: Chris <talon16m@hotmail.com>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@guildvax.guild.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/19/2000 09:43:07
one shoudl still be able to specify explicitly where the kernel swaps, as 
well, shouldnt you?

netbsd root on sd0a type ffs swap on sd2c
or whatever you like.. isnt that still legal? 

isildur

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Chris wrote:
> 
>     The platform independent SCSI driver does this, once booted it starts
> numbering devices from zero. (sd0, cd0, st0, etc.) I think someone mentioned
> that you have to do set bflg 0 in the >>> prompt to fix this. If it still
> doesn't autodetect, you may have to build you're own custom kernel
> configuration with the netbsd flag filled in. Something like:
> 
> netbsd      root on sd0a type ffs
> 
>     Once the kernel finds the root fs, it (last I checked) automatically
> defaults to sdXb for the swap partition. So that should be all you need.
> 
> 
>     Chris
> 
>