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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:38:38PM -0500, Clay wrote:
> All,
>=20
> I changed fstab so that my data partition would supposely mount before ro=
ot,=20

How do you think fstab will be read to know to mount some other
partition first, when root (where fstab lives) is not yet mounted?

> moved/symlink'd rc.conf, and rebooted.  This did not allow rc.conf to be=
=20
> found, so doing this did not make it work.  I will leave rc.conf in /etc =
for=20
> now and maybe work on a solution at a later time.

By definition you can't move out of / files needed to bootstrap the
system, so you'll need to rethink your approach.

Kris

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