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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de, jfieber@indiana.edu
Subject: Re: Mounting devfs on /dev
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>The partition nodes for the disk are not being created.  Only
>/dev/sd0, /dev/rsd0, and /dev/rsd0.ctl are there, nothing more.

They aren't created until the disk is opened.  mountroot() should
open the root device without looking it up.  Other disks can easily
be opened in /etc/rc using something `disklabel </dev/rdk0 >/dev/null'.

Bruce