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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 11:30:07 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com>
To:        freebsd-small <freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: (Probably a) dumb question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005191120550.5666-100000@lepton.subatomix.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005171955500.2925-100000@lepton.subatomix.com>

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On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
>
> So the basic problem is that the kernel isn't choosing
> fla0s1a as the root device.

Well, I've just found that I can work around it by using the third stage
loader; I was previously trying to boot directly from boot2.  I guess
boot2 is just too dumb to do the job.  It's a shame, because loader is a
waste of space (IMHO) for many small FreeBSD applications.

> Just to make sure, then, is my dumb question: in 4.0-STABLE, how does the
> kernel decide what device to use for the root filesystem?

Uh, never mind... :)

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Jeffrey S. Sharp   (XorAxAx)
jss@subatomix.com

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