Subject: Re: PR 36963
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/23/2007 21:30:53
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On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 10:58:48PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:48:23 +0200 Jan Danielsson
> <jan.m.danielsson@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Steven M. Bellovin 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?
> >=20
> > ffs. I was worried about FAT potentially causing permission problem,
> > ironically. :)
>=20
> 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.


regards,

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