On 19:52:30 Nov 11, 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.
Of course it is possible. Read boot.conf(8) for this. You can set the root device like this: # cat /etc/boot.conf set device wd0a It could be wd1a or sd1a also. You get the idea right? -Girish
