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Subject: possible mountroot regression
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It seems that after the introduction of the mountroot scripting language a user
now has exactly one chance to try to specify a correct root device at the
mountroot prompt.  I am not sure that that is convenient/enough.

I suspect that the following code is the cause:

static void
vfs_mountroot_conf0(struct sbuf *sb)
{
        char *s, *tok, *mnt, *opt;
        int error;

        sbuf_printf(sb, ".onfail panic\n");
...

-- 
Andriy Gapon