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To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.8 - can't mount root
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Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to get FreeBSD 2.2.8 to ask you for the root device
> rather than have it attempt to mount and fail ?

	The 3.x branch is a lot smarter about this, but I agree that it would be
nice in those situations where it still can't find it to stop and ask
rather than just panic().

Doug


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