On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 19:51:12 -0500 (EST), Matthew Orgass
<darkstar@city-net.com> wrote:
> 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.

Didn't work. I tried various syntax, including what you just wrote. I
won't be able to try it for a few weeks now but hopefully I'll figure
something out.