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Date:      Wed, 03 Jan 1996 09:14:53 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.hb.north.de>
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot from sd1? 
Message-ID:  <532.820656893@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Jan 1996 19:29:16 %2B0100." <199601021829.TAA13667@saturn> 

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> Heyy...  maybe this is a silly idea :)  but what about adding the
> root device to the list of things configurable with -c?  default (-1?)
> is whatever the boot code (bios) guessed like its now, if thats wrong
> (`cannot mount root') simply reboot with -c and tell the kernel where
> it really is.  then write this back in dset -q...

My plan was to get somebody to make a sysctl editor to go along with the
userconfig editor, and make it a sysctl variable :-)

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