So there isn't really an option like I was describing? I was going to just
create my / partition on my boot hard drive like you mentioned, but I
seemed so close when I ran "boot hd0a:/bsd -a" at the boot prompt that I
thought I was missing something in the documentation...
Thanks anyway.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:08:08 -0800, Ben Calvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
on Linux, too much crap tends to end up in /, so they created /boot so
you could have a small separate partition.
on more traditional unix systems, you dont' put much in / , instead you
have a separate /usr /tmp /home /var , etc.
why not put / where you wanted to put /boot and then mount the rest on
the second disk
On Nov 11, 2008, at 7:52 PM, Joseph Alten wrote:
Due to technical constraints, my setup requires that I have a separate
boot partition (basically the kernel and anything else critical for
booting), and then of course my root partition other data partitions on
a separate disk.
I'm kind of new to OpenBSD, and so far what I've managed to do is copy
/bsd to a separate partition, then at the boot> prompt I run "boot hd0a
-a", then specify my root partition when prompted by the kernel. While
this has the desired effect, I'd rather not run this every time I want
to boot OpenBSD. Is there a kernel parameter I can pass that lets the
kernel know ahead of time the root device I wish to mount?
Basically I'm looking for the OpenBSD equivalent of root=/dev/xxx Linux
kernel parameter. I think I managed to get FreeBSD working similarly
with the vfs.root.mountfrom= parameter, but this doesn't appear to
exist in OpenBSD.
Thanks for looking into this.
--Joseph Alten
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