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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
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Message-ID: <3cij0c$hpt@orion.cc.andrews.edu>
References: <3cibh7$j61@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
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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
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