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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.8 - can't mount root
To: Doug@gorean.org (Doug)
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:26:14 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <37D3FF1C.662B7493@gorean.org> from "Doug" at Sep 6, 99 10:51:24 am
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In some mail from Doug, sie said:
> 
> 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().

Does FreeBSD yet have a kernel boot "-a" option where it asks things like
where is the root partition, what filesystem type is it, etc ?

Darren


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