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Date:      Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:56:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Michael Reifenberger <root@nihil.plaut.de>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/release/i386 mkisoimages.sh
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020411165611.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020411233341.Q302-100000@nihil>

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On 11-Apr-2002 Michael Reifenberger wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
> ...
>> >   Switch to using cdboot for booting i386 CD's by default.
> How do you mount root from your cdrom on -current?
> For me (using "set vfs.root.mountfrom=cd9660:/dev/acd0c" or "boot -C)
> this doesn't work.
> Maybe because cd* uses disk_create() where acd* doesn't?

Releases still use a MFS root that gets sucked off the CD from
/boot/mfsroot.gz.  However, I think I have seen patches by tmm at one
point in the sparc64 branch that claimed to fix this.  I have no idea
why it doesn't work though.

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