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To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
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Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
> "Handle", in what sense?  How does /boot/loader.conf have any
> connection to anything PROM-ish?

They are both used to set boot parameters such as which device to use
for /, and to a certain extent to configure the hardware.

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