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Date:      Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:10:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        Dirk Kleinhesselink <dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.1-20000719-RC#2 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007211409210.8451-100000@semuta.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <5133.964213793@localhost>

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> 
> Erm, if that's the case, something seriously does not make sense or is
> broken in a very fundamental way.
> 
> When the md driver is compiled in with MD_ROOT set, this happens:
> 
> SYSINIT(md_root, SI_SUB_MOUNT_ROOT, SI_ORDER_FIRST, md_takeroot, NULL);
> 
> Which should put the MFS root *first* in the root mount list.  Any
> existing partitions should have no effect on this.

One would think.

Is there an optimization in the installer to look for an existing UFS
filesystem to mount, as I said, *after* the terminal type question is asked
which is getting spoofed?

-matt




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