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Subject: Re: what should uname -v be telling me here?
From: paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:
> You need to find out where /boot resides (in my case,
> it's on ad4s1a, which is mounted at /) to identify the boot
> device (or to be precise, the device the kernel has been read
> from).


I keep thinking this should be something you ought to be able to
discover without being on console. I realize the BIOS can't be
interrogated but if I knew that the active kernel was ad3:/boot/kernel
or ad2:/boot/kernel, it would be useful. Kind of surprised that
doesn't appear anywhere in dmesg or that it can't be read out of
somewhere.

-- 
Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/