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Date:      Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:02:23 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Tapan Chaudhari <tapan.list@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.
Message-ID:  <200807151302.30415.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <482257ad0807141925m37c5b46bqa65c33852078b6f8@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, Tapan Chaudhari wrote:
> Thank You Mateusz and Mike. I guess I am clear with my doubt now. I
> will also go through the man pages to go into depth of it.

The critical thing is that the loader must read the kernel (and modules,=20
config etc..) from a disk the BIOS knows about.

After that you can use any device the kernel knows about.

As for the virtual device aspect - could you use a geom class to do you=20
want? It's hard to say without an overview of what you actually want to=20
achieve :)

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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