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Subject: Re: SMP; autoboot
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 04:03:27PM +1000, Peter Grehan wrote:
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>  With only a single argument to boot, the 'bootdev' environment 
> variable can be set to 'hd:,\freebsd.tbxi', and 'autoboot?' set to true.

Is that the key -- that OF will only pass one argument to boot?
 
>  I guess that wasn't really mentioned in the article, but it was most 
> of the way there :)

That makes sense.

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