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Subject: Re: Alpha multiboot: is it possible? 
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In article <199912130031.QAA04415@mass.cdrom.com>,
Mike Smith  <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> 
> I just got a report that $rootdev doesn't parse correctly without a 
> trailing ':', and indeed the original design was for the trailing colon 
> to be mandatory.

I tried it with the trailing colon too, but that didn't make any
difference.

My setup is a bit complicated, so let me fill in the details.  On da0a
I have -current.  On da0f I have -stable.  I suppose the /boot/loader
that's being used is coming from da0a, so maybe that causes problems
for booting a -stable kernel.

I even tried configuring the -stable kernel with an explicit "config
kernel root on da0f" in the config file, but it still gives me da0a as
the root filesystem when I boot it.

John
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  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
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