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Date:      Mon, 01 Apr 2002 10:09:34 -0800
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Dmitry Konyshev <daemon@agava.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: finding out boot device 
Message-ID:  <200204011809.g31I9Yg01184@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Apr 2002 20:34:42 %2B0400." <84434325847.20020401203442@agava.com> 

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>    Could anyone please tell me if there's any way to find out which
>    device the system booted from in a user application. The loader
>    sets loaddev and currdev vars, but I see no way to transfer them to
>    the user environment.

kenv(8) allows you to read the kernel/loader environment.

However, you can't reliably determine the boot device.

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