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I am booting kernel directly from bootblock, and do not have
boot loader, so kenv does not work.

certainly, sysctl kern.bootfile points to /kernel,
but it does not tell anything.

The actual device may be floppy, CF card or harrdisk,
and I do not have any means of figuring it out.

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:15:16AM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Aug 17), Sergey Lyubka said:
> > How would one know the actual boot device after kernel successfully
> > booted ?
> 
> The kern.bootfile sysctl points to the kernel file that was loaded,
> according to the loader.  If you booted off of cdrom or floppy, you can
> run "kenv loaddev" to find out which device was actually used to read
> the file.
> 
> -- 
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@allantgroup.com

-- 
Sergey Lyubka, Network Security Consultant
NetFort ISS Ltd, Galway, Ireland