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Date:      Mon, 06 Dec 2004 11:47:01 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        jroberson@chesapeake.net
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [TEST/REVIEW]: rootfs mounting code rework 
Message-ID:  <20041206.114701.104086228.imp@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041205044145.A18185@mail.chesapeake.net>
References:  <56325.1102236241@critter.freebsd.dk> <20041205044145.A18185@mail.chesapeake.net>

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> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 
> > In message <p0620073ebdd844240e34@[128.113.24.47]>, Garance A Drosihn writes:
> > >At 11:08 AM +0100 12/4/04, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > >>http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/rootfs.patch
> > >>
> > >>Please test and review.
> > >
> > >Hmm.  Does this mean that we'll always get the correct partition
> > >for '/', even if /etc/fstab is wrong for '/'?  By "correct", I
> > >mean "the partition that the kernel was loaded from".
> >
> > The loader reads /etc/fstab and picks the entry for '/' out of it
> > so I can only pressume that whoever did that disagree with your
> > notion of "correct".
> 
> I believe he's referring to the case where you load a kernel from
> somewhere other than the default '/'.

The only way I've made this work is to put a /etc/fstab on the default
/ which points to the real one I want to use...

Warner



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