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bob@cci.net wrote:

> > 3) I'm booting (netbsd.eco) from a fat partition on sd0, but NetBSD is
> > on sd1, right now I have to enter sd1a as the root partition each time
> > I boot. I know I can set that manually, but was install supposed to set
> > that up for me?

> The machdep.c file in arc/arc assumes the root partition is locatedon the
> first NetBSD partition located on the same drive where
> the FAT partition contaning the boot kernel ( ie Netbsd.eco).
> You'll have change above file and recompile kernel to change...Nasty!

The real solution is to implement a native boot loader which loads
a kernel from an FFS partition and passes bootinfo to the kernel.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp