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Re: New boothowto flag to prevent raid auto-root-configuration
> Note that especially for the install CD setup, a rootstring passed from
> boot.cfg is *not* possible, as we do not know which CD drive is used
> for booting.
FYI, see also PR port-i386/39998 and x86_autoconf.c:
>> /*
>> * XXX
>> * There is no proper way to detect which unit is
>> * recognized as a bootable CD-ROM drive by the BIOS.
>> * Assume the first unit is the one.
>> */
I.e. currently only root on cd0a works on x86 GENERIC anyway.
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Izumi Tsutsui
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