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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
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* Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> [031201 00:27] wrote:
> At 00:18 01/12/2003 -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> >Then type these commands into the loader:
> >unload kernel
> >load /ikernel
> >load -t mfs_root /mfsroot
> >set vfs.root.mountfrom
> >boot          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>   Surely that should be vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" ?
> 
>   It should also be possible to put the above into /boot/loader.rc.

Setting it blank seems to do the right thing.

What happens otherwise is that the loader starts booting, then
there's some code in it that "handily" parses the currdev's /etc/fstab
for you and sets vfs.root.mountfrom to the root (/) entry from the
fstab, then you wind up booting your old userland from god knows
what kernel.

I don't know what setting it to "ufs:/dev/md0c" would do.

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