On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:27:50 pm you wrote:
> > As Manuel would say, "root=/dev/hda1" is a copy and paste from a
> > linux config.
> > The correct line would be "bootdev=wd0", obviously replacing wd0
> > with your
> > applicable nbsd device.
> >
> > I believe root= is now an equivelent? ... but you would still need
> > to specify
> > a nbsd device, not a linux one.
>
> The NetBSD/xen howto still uses the "root=/dev/hda0" terminology, so
> it is not so much a copy-and-paste from Linux as a copy-and-paste
> from the NetBSD instructions.

Yes, which was a copy and paste from xen docs, originally developed on linux.

I never stated where the copy and paste occurred.

The howto needs to be updated but xen3 has been in development and there 
hasn't been the requirement for it to be changed by people running xen2 IIRC.

I'm sure when someone in port-xen devel determines it needs to be done they 
will either ask it to be done or do it. I'm by far the last person to discuss 
this issue with. I dumped the entire intructions for configuring xen3 on the 
onetbsd.org wiki due to the docs being out of date.

> I use "root=/dev/hda0" all over my dom0's and, no, I do not have a
> "hda0" entry in my /dev.

I have no entry at all in my dom0 ... so good on me.

NetBSD is pretty good at determining the boot device if it is not specified 
correctly, assuming you don't have and overriding sdx device.

I can tell you straight out, you may have that entry, but it's not doing what 
you think.

Sarton