Subject: Re: Selection of the root partition
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/23/2007 13:16:17
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 03:51:06PM -0600, Michael L. Hitch wrote:
> >can somebody please explain me where and how the root partition is
> >selected in the NetBSD kernel? I'm especially interested in the i386 port.
> 
> sys/arch/x86/x86/x86_autoconf.c

Thanks. That seems to support ld(4).

I was just wondering if there's some code missing to support auto-decting
a root partition on a ld(4) device.

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".

	Kind regards

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