Subject: Re: root on md forces single-user flag for init
To: Larry Colen <lrc@recourse.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/17/2001 20:05:50
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:26:40PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote:
> Does this have anything to do with why when I finally got a CD that
> would boot, it went to the sysinst software? The funny thing is that
> I can't find sysinst on the cdrom. I suspect that I need to mount the
> ..fs file as vnd0 or something to find sysinst.
It's just that when you boot from CD it's just as if you booted from floppy
(The bios emulates a floppy with the image you passed to mkisofs).
If you want root on cdrom, you need to build a kernel with root on cd0
in the config file, put it in a boot floppy image and uses this for mkisofs.
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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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