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From: "Sean Hamilton" <sh@bel.bc.ca>
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Subject: Bootable FreeBSD CD
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 19:12:47 -0800
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Greetings,

How does the kernel on the FreeBSD install CD know which device to mount as
root? I'm assuming it hasn't got a ROOTDEVNAME config option, since that
would make it fairly specific to certain hardware.

Mine always tries to mount fd0.

thanks,

sh


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