Re: the root is on

2010-01-18 Thread Raimo Niskanen
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 01:14:53PM +0100, Manuel Giraud wrote: > "Brad Tilley" writes: > > > Not sure I understand, but I have similar softraid crypto setups and > > there's no need to boot bsd.rd to edit /etc/fstab. When booting bsd or > > bsd.mp and you are dumped to sh to run bioctl, use ed to

Re: the root is on

2010-01-18 Thread Manuel Giraud
Raimo Niskanen writes: > You can always "mount -t ffs / /dev/sd1a". Thanks for that! I didn't want to mess the real /etc/rc so I end up with the following script that I put in /bin. #!/bin/ksh set_kbd() { local _layout _resp _default=1 [[ -x /sbin/kbd ]] || return while :; do

Re: the root is on

2010-01-18 Thread Manuel Giraud
"Brad Tilley" writes: > Not sure I understand, but I have similar softraid crypto setups and > there's no need to boot bsd.rd to edit /etc/fstab. When booting bsd or > bsd.mp and you are dumped to sh to run bioctl, use ed to correct > /etc/fstab there. Yes, but I cannot edit /etc/fstab from here

Re: the root is on

2010-01-16 Thread Brad Tilley
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:37 +0100, "Manuel Giraud" wrote: > Otto Moerbeek writes: > > >> Here's a probably stupid question: since the kernel can detect the "root > >> on sd0a" why is there still a need for fstab entry for it? > > > > Because you might want to specify mount options, or an alternat

Re: the root is on

2010-01-16 Thread Manuel Giraud
Otto Moerbeek writes: >> Here's a probably stupid question: since the kernel can detect the "root >> on sd0a" why is there still a need for fstab entry for it? > > Because you might want to specify mount options, or an alternate root. In fact, I was wondering because I have installed OpenBSD on

Re: the root is on

2010-01-15 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 05:50:21PM +0100, Manuel Giraud wrote: > Hi, > > Here's a probably stupid question: since the kernel can detect the "root > on sd0a" why is there still a need for fstab entry for it? Because you might want to specify mount options, or an alternate root. -Otto

Re: the root is on

2010-01-15 Thread Ted Unangst
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Manuel Giraud wrote: > Here's a probably stupid question: since the kernel can detect the "root > on sd0a" why is there still a need for fstab entry for it? Maybe you want to use softdep.

the root is on

2010-01-15 Thread Manuel Giraud
Hi, Here's a probably stupid question: since the kernel can detect the "root on sd0a" why is there still a need for fstab entry for it? -- Manuel Giraud