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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: abial@korin.warman.org.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Bootloader/kernel ignores "-a" flag...
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>I couldn't make it work... It simply ignores it and still keeps
>automatically changing root device to fd0c (I start from floppy).

-a only works with "config	kernel	swap on generic" in the
kernel config file.  This should be the default, but it breaks
"root on ...".  It has nothing to do with swap.

Bruce