On 06/11/15 07:18, David Brownlee wrote:
>>Do you have a RAID1 set to autoconfigure as root? If so, it will
>>'steal' root even when you boot off a USB key or other.
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>*Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh*, that explains much !!!!
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>>If you drop to the boot prompt and 'boot netbsd -a' you should be
>>asked for a root device (among other items:)
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>That's where I seem to be stuck, I don't recall an opportunity to do that,
>when & where do I (try to) drop to the boot prompt ? TIA & thanks for the
>reply:-) ....
Should be at the very first NetBSD boot loader prompt - when it counts down
OK, belay my last reply, it was option 4 at the boot prompt, when I hit
that, it went through its initialization, then got to a couple of lines
that said:
boot device raid0
root device (default raid0a):
When I tried to enter something, it was hung, cursor never moved, no
characters that I typed in showed up, nothing. All text on the screen
was in green, FWIW, several screen-fulls, talking about devices located
etc, w/ cursor in white right after the '(raid0a):'. What now ?
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