Subject: Re: Selection of the root partition
To: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.msu.montana.edu>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/23/2007 08:01:09
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 03:51:06PM -0600, Michael L. Hitch wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, 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.
>
> sys/arch/x86/x86/x86_autoconf.c
Actually sys/arch/i386/stand/bootxx/boot1.c has its finger in the pie first.
And that is based on the mbr partition selected by mbr.S.
David
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