On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:05:47AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:31:42PM -0800, Joseph Alten wrote: > > 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... > > The boot prompt is the boot loader not the kernel. With your command, > you're telling the boot loader to load the kernel on hd0a:/ called bsd. > That's not the same as booting a kernel on one drive and using a > different drive for the root partition, which is what you asked for.
Yes, I know the -a flag tells the kernel to ask for root device. I just don't see a way of telling the kernel up-front what root device to use. > In Linux parlance, this is having grub on /dev/hda but linux on > /dev/hdc1, which works without needing a separate /boot partition.
