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Date:      Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:28:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Peter Grehan <grehan@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Sean_Welch@alum.wofford.org, freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Also interested in testing
Message-ID:  <15957.22175.479216.85660@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3E555520.89E3C76F@freebsd.org>
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Peter Grehan writes:
 > >  >   > set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:ad0s11
 > >  >
 > >  >  and then boot.
 > > 
 > > Yes, of course.  But its shorter to type ufs:ad0s11 at the mountroot
 > > prompt ;)
 > 
 >  :-)
 > 
 >  My current plan is to supply an argument when booting the loader, which will be
 > able to auto-set currdev and the above variable e.g.
 > 
 >     O> boot hd:9\\loader dev=ad0s11
 > 
 >  That should minimize typing even more, and also allow automatic booting from
 > OpenFirmware.

That sounds like the best plan by far.

Drew

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