On 2005-03-13 acruhl@gmail.com wrote:

> What I'd like to do is boot my netbsd kernel directly from the netbsd
> root disk. Or in bootloader talk, wd0a:netbsd.
>
> Is there a way to do this? There probably is but I just didn't read up on it.

  /netbsd should do it (with pbsdboot at least, don't know about hpcboot),
or you may need 1:/netbsd, 2:/netbsd, etc. (I think the number is for
different disks).  On my Clio pbsdboot sometimes has trouble loading from
the ffs partition, but will usually get it after a few tries (gzipped
kernels have less trouble).

> Another question I have is, when you type "reboot" from a root prompt,
> does it load the kernel at /netbsd? I think it does. If this is the
> case, then it might be easy to boot a kernel into single user mode and
> then just reboot to pick up the kernel at wd0a:netbsd.

  Yes, there is a kernel config option to change the name, but /netbsd is
the default.  I don't think kloader can read compressed kernels.

Matthew Orgass
dakrstar@city-net.com