On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Raimo Niskanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 07:52:30PM -0800, Joseph Alten wrote: >> Due to technical constraints, my setup requires that I have a separate >> boot partition (basically the kernel and anything else critical for >> booting), and then of course my root partition other data partitions on a >> separate disk. > > Can you say more about the "technical constraints". If it is just > size constraints there should not be much of a problem since > the root partition is supposed to be small in OpenBSD.
Yes, it's just size constraints. Generally I prefer /usr, /var, /opt, and so on, to be on the same partition because that allows for a more flexible storage mechanism. However, most of my hard drive storage is non-bootable, which means that I usually place kernels and ramdisks on my bootable hard drive. >> >> I'm kind of new to OpenBSD, and so far what I've managed to do is copy >> /bsd to a separate partition, then at the boot> prompt I run "boot hd0a >> -a", then specify my root partition when prompted by the kernel. While >> this has the desired effect, I'd rather not run this every time I want to >> boot OpenBSD. Is there a kernel parameter I can pass that lets the kernel >> know ahead of time the root device I wish to mount? >> >> Basically I'm looking for the OpenBSD equivalent of root=/dev/xxx Linux >> kernel parameter. I think I managed to get FreeBSD working similarly with >> the vfs.root.mountfrom= parameter, but this doesn't appear to exist in >> OpenBSD. >> >> Thanks for looking into this. >> >> -- >> Joseph Alten > > -- > > / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
