Subject: Re: PR 36963
To: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
From: Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson@gmail.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/23/2007 23:48:08
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Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
>>>>> I boot off a USB memory key, then use the sysctl init.root knob
>>>>> to chroot from a memory disk to a cgd0a on wd0a. I followed
>>>>> Lubomirs advise. See
>>>>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2007/07/01/0002.html.
>>>>>
>>>> Grasping at more straws -- is the USB key formatted as FAT or FFS?
>>> ffs. I was worried about FAT potentially causing permission problem,
>>> ironically. :)
>> Hmm.  I was hoping you'd say FAT, because then I could say "I wonder
>> if that's causing a permission problem"....
> 
> fyi, i use FAT but that is orthogonal to the issue at hand.  the device
> is only used to load the kernel from it, nothing else.  it's not even
> present in the machine after this step.

   I'm guessing that you aren't seeing the problem described in the PR?

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Kind regards,
Jan Danielsson

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