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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Floppy booting aha1510 Date: 12 Dec 1994 22:31:40 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3cij0c$hpt@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <3cibh7$j61@hpscit.sc.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu Keywords: NetBSD 1.0 In article <3cibh7$j61@hpscit.sc.hp.com> reink@neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool) writes: > >BUT > instead of using the configured sd0 as root it uses the >floppy as root. Why doesn't this work the way I think it >should work? > The boot code uses the device it booted off of as the root partition. The '-r' option on the boot line should do it. -Andrew -- ========================================================== Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu LAN/WAN/Netware/Unix Analyst gillham@whirlpool.com ==========================================================