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Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>,
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Subject: Re: possible mountroot regression
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on 27/08/2011 18:16 Marcel Moolenaar said the following:
> 
> On Aug 26, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> This is no different from before.

Are you sure?
I remember trying multiple (incorrect) possibilities at the prompt and not
getting the panic.  But I know that sometimes I have cases of "false memories",
so _I_ am not sure.

-- 
Andriy Gapon