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Date:      Mon, 29 Aug 2011 09:45:29 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: possible mountroot regression
Message-ID:  <E2FDBF46-8DA6-4D13-B5B5-7EB22C220F9D@xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <4E5B4BFB.9040907@FreeBSD.org>
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On Aug 29, 2011, at 1:21 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:

> on 27/08/2011 18:16 Marcel Moolenaar said the following:
>>=20
>> On Aug 26, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>>=20
>>>=20
>>> 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.
>>=20
>> This is no different from before.
>=20
> 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.

I'm sure now that we're both not sure :-)

It's possible the failure mode varied by how the root mount
failed...

--=20
Marcel Moolenaar
marcel@xcllnt.net





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