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From: "Jamil J. Weatherbee" <jamil@counterintelligence.ml.org>
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Subject: Re: HD controller weirdness...
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Booting is generally done using the bios whereas mounting the root
filesystem is done with the bsd hard drive drivers.

> this has me confused, if the machine is booting off of the harddrive you'd
> think there wouldn't be a problem with it...