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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:27:02 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, paul.hernaus@nl.origin-it.com, phk@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kern/6363
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>Synopsis: Kernel tries to mount root fs from wrong disk and panics
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>State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
>State-Changed-By: phk
>State-Changed-When: Tue Apr 21 23:31:44 PDT 1998
>State-Changed-Why: 
>I don't think anything uses the "root on" spec from the config file,
>it is way to inflexible.  The Fix is the correct way to do it.

It is used if you boot with -r, but is too inflexible to be of much use.

Bruce

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