On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 08:42:30AM +1100, matthew green wrote: > > Whats the point of /altroot? hier(7) says "Alternate root file system, > > in case of disaster." Is there a way to boot such that / is not inode 2, > > but that of altroot? > > it's a mountpoint for that file system. > > on my main devbox, when i boot -current, /altroot is the -10 install, and > when i boot -10, /altroot is the -current install.
If you put / on wd0a, /usr on wd0e, /altroot on wd1a, and /altroot/usr on wd1e, and make sure both disks have bootblocks, it takes a very exotic set of failures to force you to go and dig up rescue media. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
