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Date:      Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:42:02 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "Sean Hamilton" <sh@bel.bc.ca>, <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Bootable FreeBSD CD
Message-ID:  <p05200f51ba29935a5ed6@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <000601c2a89e$d6a2ae40$18d6e8d8@slugabed.org>
References:  <000601c2a89e$d6a2ae40$18d6e8d8@slugabed.org>

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At 7:12 PM -0800 12/20/02, Sean Hamilton wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>How does the kernel on the FreeBSD install CD know which device to
>mount as root? I'm assuming it hasn't got a ROOTDEVNAME config
>option, since that would make it fairly specific to certain hardware.
>
>Mine always tries to mount fd0.

You might want to check out
     http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/freebsdtogo/

It might be helpful for whatever you're trying to do...

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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