Re: Making a partition bootable (SS10)

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,

Mouse wrote:
> I think the kernel also has to be within the ROM-readable part too.  If
> you cp the kernel into / (as opposed to mving it, if you build your
> kernels on that filesystem), it will often wind up entirely in cg 0 and
> thus below the 1G mark, but this is a risky thing to depend on.
That is what has bitten me in the past!
> > >  Another approach is to make a separate / partition, and then swap and
> > >  /usr.
> Or a separate boot partition, with / elsewhere, typically with a kernel
> configured "config root on" the actual / partition.
so do I need to configure things specially?
Let me explain:
I have:
sd0a : boot
sd0b : swap
sd0c : "disk"
sd0d : /

I run installboot onto rds0a (although I think it is similar to rsd0c I 
suppose, being the first)

the kernel "boots" but then stops with:

warning: no /dev/console
exec /sbin/error 2
init: trying /sbin/oinit

and a load of other errors up to a panic.

Is it that now the kernel is trying to boot from "sd0a" as root, while I 
want it to use sd0d ?

How do I achieve this? you mention configure root. How?

Riccardo