Re: port-i386/40358: i386 cannot boot 2nd disk

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/40358; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-i386/40358: i386 cannot boot 2nd disk
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:47:37 +0000

 On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 09:45:02AM +0000, Juergen Hannken-Illjes wrote:
 > 
 >  Addendum:
 >      It looks more consistent if modules were loaded from the
 >      disk the kernel resides on.
 
 One related issue is that the kernel isn't necessarily loaded from
 the root filesystem.
 
 I've sometimes thought of changing /boot to pass the kernel a different
 root filesystem, but couldn't think of the command syntax.
 But it can easily be done with 'boot -i'.
 
        David
 
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