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Hello,

On Apr 22, 2007, at 17:27, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> can somebody please explain me where and how the root partition is
> selected in the NetBSD kernel? I'm especially interested in the i386 
> port.

Especially or only?
On OF machines the firmware tells us where it loaded the kernel from as 
a device path, we grab that and compare when disks attach, via 
device_register(). Grossly simplified but that's how it works.

have fun
Michael
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