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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: kernel switches, what are they?
Date: 31 Oct 1995 19:14:46 +0100
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Bil Herd <bherd@zeus.jersey.net> wrote:
>Where can the description of the boot time kernel switches be found?  I 
>know that the -c switch is used to configure the probe parameters.  Is 
>there a way to specify the root filesystem such as a second floppy, etc.

I rewrote the manpage for boot_i386(8) in 2.2-current and 2.1-stable.
This includes the list of all boot options.
-- 
cheers, J"org

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