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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC LINT Makefile.i386 files.i386 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 May 1999 19:44:05 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 06:31:43 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Feel free to do so.

In message <199905100244.TAA10132@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes:
>>   You can still configure a root device (which is used if you give
>>   the "-r" flag) but now with an option:
>>   
>>           options         ROOTDEVNAME=\"da0s2e\"
>>   
>>   The string is parsed by the same code as at the "boot -a" prompt.
>
>Could you use something like:
>
>	rootdevname = getenv("kern.rootdev.name");
>#ifdef ROOTDEVNAME
>	if (!rootdevname)
>		rootdevname = ROOTDEVNAME;
>#else
>	if (!rootdevname)
>		rootdevname = ... old guessing behaviour
>
>so that the loader can unconditionally override the root device name?  
>I have this crazy plan to read /etc/fstab to try find the root device 
>before starting the kernel, which should make all this crap about 
>guessing it based on the disk label obsolete.
>
>-- 
>\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
>\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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>\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com
>
>
>
>

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