Subject: Re: Selection of the root partition
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/28/2007 14:47:19
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 06:24:53PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > 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.

The goods news is that after upgrading the system t NetBSD 4.0_BETA2
the kernel autodetects the root partition on "ld0" just fine.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/