On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:55:18AM -0500, Clay wrote: > I realized what the problem mostly likely was after submitting the question. > I do believe that the mount point where I am wanting to have rc.conf located > is not yet available when the file is read. Is there a way to have this FS > mounted prior to rc.conf being read? Could I maybe place this mount point > above the root in fstab? I will give it try when I have time later today.
No. The process FreeBSD uses to boot is as follows: 1. Load kernel from disk or other media 2. Kernel initializes various hardware and subsystems. 3. Kernel mounts root file system. 4. Kernel invoked init 5. Init runs /etc/rc and waits for it to complete 6. /etc/rc reads /etc/rc.conf 7. /etc/rc runs various scripts in /etc/rc.d in a specified order 8. Various scripts run including /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal 9. Init loads gettys specified in /etc/ttys and goes into it's main loop The order in fstab doesn't matter, the kernel only knows enough to mount the root fs, and the scripts in /etc/rc.d mount all the other filesystems, but by then, rc.conf has already been read or attempted to be read. You could hack /etc/rc to mount another fs, but I would strongly recommend against it. > > Thanks, > -Clay > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
