I am booting kernel directly from bootblock, and do not have boot loader, so kenv does not work.
certainly, sysctl kern.bootfile points to /kernel, but it does not tell anything. The actual device may be floppy, CF card or harrdisk, and I do not have any means of figuring it out. On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:15:16AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 17), Sergey Lyubka said: > > How would one know the actual boot device after kernel successfully > > booted ? > > The kern.bootfile sysctl points to the kernel file that was loaded, > according to the loader. If you booted off of cdrom or floppy, you can > run "kenv loaddev" to find out which device was actually used to read > the file. > > -- > Dan Nelson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sergey Lyubka, Network Security Consultant NetFort ISS Ltd, Galway, Ireland _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
