Subject: Re: Selection of the root partition
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/23/2007 18:24:53
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:52:27PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 02:24:42PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > I'll guess I have to dig a bit deeper to figure out why my server isn't
> > > booting of ld(4)@icp(4) unless I hardwire the root to "ld0".
> > 
> > FWIW, it has no problems with ld@pdcide, or ld@amr
> 
> Does the backend driver have to "do anything" to make it work?
> If I understand the code in "x86_autoconf.c" correctly it is enough
> if the device appears in the global list.

This is how I understand it too. It looks more like the infos reported
by the boot loader can't be matched with the disks found in the system.
You'll have to find why the informations are different.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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