Re: Re: Re: Strange "root on %s" automatic selection

[Joel CARNAT <joel%carnat.net@localhost>]

On Jeu, nov 30 2006 - 22:16, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:10:04PM +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> > On Jeu, nov 30 2006 - 11:03, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:39:42PM +0100, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I have NetBSD 4.99.3 installed on my Shuttle.
> > > > It has an IDE disk driver (wd0, where NetBSD is installed) and two card
> > > > readers (sd0 and sd1, that are empty).
> > > > 
> > > > With the NetBSD/i386 kernel, the boot process detects "root on wd0a".
> > > > With the NetBSD/xen kernel, the boot process don't automatically detect
> > > > "root on wd0a" and even propose a default "root on sd0a".
> > > > [...]
> > > > 
> > > > My Grub conf boot part is
> > > > ########################################################################
> > > > title   NetBSD/xen (serial)
> > > >         root (hd0,0,a)
> > > >         kernel (hd0,0,a)/usr/pkg/xen3-kernel/xen.gz dom0_mem=196608 
> > > > com1=9600,8n1
> > > >         module (hd0,0,a)/netbsd-xen0 root=/dev/hda1 ro console=ttyS0
> > > > ########################################################################
> > > 
> > > Change this to "root=wd0"
> > > 
> > 
> > I tried "root=wd0" and "root=wd0a" but it still does not work.
> > Or maybe I didn't understood which part to modify :)
> 
> Ops sorry it's not "root=wd0" it's "bootdev=wd0"
> 

yeeha - it works :)

thanks a lot !