So I installed new bootbocks and new boot code. What I need to do now is force the system to boot from /dev/wd0a, swap to /dev/wd0b and use /sbin/init without needing console interaction. What it does at present at the end of the hardware probe (still in green screen) is say that the boot device is unknown, then prompts for a root device with /dev/ld0a as the default. If I disable ld* in autoconf then the system proceeds to boot normally. Here is the relevant bit of dmesg.boot:
Kernelized RAIDframe activated ataraid0: found 1 RAID volume ld0 at ataraid0 vendtype 0 unit 0: Promise ATA SPAN array ld0: 76319 MB, 9729 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 156301425 sectors ld0: mbr partition exceeds disk size ld0: mbr partition exceeds disk size ld0: mbr partition exceeds disk size ld0: mbr partition exceeds disk size ld0: mbr partition exceeds disk size boot device: ld0 root on ld0a dumps on ld0b ld0: mbr partition exceeds disk size Supported file systems: union umap tmpfs smbfs puffs ptyfs procfs overlay null n tfs nfs msdos mfs lfs kernfs fdesc ext2fs ffs coda cd9660 no file system for ld0 (dev 0x1300) cannot mount root, error = 79 It must surely be possible to specify root and swap partitions somewhere in a configuration file. But I have read and reread so many man pages now that I think I must just be missing something terroibly obvious. You wrote: > > --=-=-= > Content-Type: text/plain > > > note that you may be better off with newer first-stage bootblocks > (e.g. bootxx_ffsv1). I sent you a script earlier that updates my > system; read boot(8) and installboot(8) carefully, and figure out your > root fs type. My script may well be wrong for you. > > #!/bin/sh > > installboot -v /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1 > > cp -p /usr/mdec/boot / > > --=-=-= > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1 > > iEYEARECAAYFAle174EACgkQ+vesoDJhHiUo6gCgio7KLFvUm+L6xnuQmmfJmW5r > tKcAoK55mI/ir/YQwT4OHEND75B+ECAb > =OvTm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > --=-=-=-- > -- Steve Blinkhorn <st...@prd.co.uk>
