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| author | msmith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-01-24 00:12:17 +0000 |
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| committer | msmith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> | 1999-01-24 00:12:17 +0000 |
| commit | d0d15b4eb802a43147eac8488418ce054cc534f7 (patch) | |
| tree | c81ff8e85487725bc6cf08117e14b3b1f8fa4835 /sys | |
| parent | 1e566c55054dd9a7be95eade9a296a6b9e0b84be (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-d0d15b4eb802a43147eac8488418ce054cc534f7.zip FreeBSD-src-d0d15b4eb802a43147eac8488418ce054cc534f7.tar.gz | |
Document root_disk_unit
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| -rw-r--r-- | sys/boot/i386/loader/help.i386 | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sys/boot/i386/loader/help.i386 b/sys/boot/i386/loader/help.i386 index 8128825..4e4ec8b 100644 --- a/sys/boot/i386/loader/help.i386 +++ b/sys/boot/i386/loader/help.i386 @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ ################################################################################ # Tset Snum_ide_disks DSet the number of IDE disks + NOTE: this variable is deprecated, use root_disk_unit instead. + set num_ide_disks=<value> When booting from a SCSI disk on a system with one or more IDE disks, @@ -32,3 +34,13 @@ be run when the kernel is booted. ################################################################################ +# Tset Sroot_disk_unit DForce the root disk unit number. + + set root_disk_unit=<value> + + If the code which detects the disk unit number for the root disk is + confused, eg. by a mix of SCSI and IDE disks, or IDE disks with + gaps in the sequence (eg. no primary slave), the unit number can be + forced by setting this variable. + +################################################################################ |
