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> 
> Erm, if that's the case, something seriously does not make sense or is
> broken in a very fundamental way.
> 
> When the md driver is compiled in with MD_ROOT set, this happens:
> 
> SYSINIT(md_root, SI_SUB_MOUNT_ROOT, SI_ORDER_FIRST, md_takeroot, NULL);
> 
> Which should put the MFS root *first* in the root mount list.  Any
> existing partitions should have no effect on this.

One would think.

Is there an optimization in the installer to look for an existing UFS
filesystem to mount, as I said, *after* the terminal type question is asked
which is getting spoofed?

-matt




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