2018-02-01 17:02 GMT+01:00 <ti...@openmailbox.org>: > >> >> This should be a fundamental and trivial usecase to OpenBSD, however, > >> >> last time I tried (then with adding a "boot" command to boot.conf per > >> >> http://man.openbsd.org/boot.conf ), I think it not worked out of the > >> >> box. > >> > > >> > It might not be very appealing but afaict the only trivial way to do > >> > this is to place root on the USB stick or some other device, and other > >> > filesystems on NVME. > > Just curious, why is it so difficult to get going, why does not any > boot.conf command specify to the kernel what root disk to use, so this way > you could locate the kernel to a USB memory stick and then boot the > remainder of the system from the device that the kernel but not the BIOS > can access? >
Tried boot> boot bsd -a yet? With a specification of where you will find bsd, but using -a to specify root location late after you have the kernel. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
