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Re: The root partition inside a slice.



> 
> Can you also show your boot.cfg?
> Does it have "rndseed /var/db/entropy-file; boot hd0e:netbsd" ?
> If so, probably you have to remove "rndseed" command from it.
> 
> IIRC, the current x86 bootloader has a bug:
>  - "rndseed" (and modules) always tries to open the partition a
>  - once the partition a is opened the bootloader sets it as a root partition
>    into bootinfo even if it isn't opened for loading a kernel
> http://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/lib/biosdisk.c?r=1.43#781
> 

After manual: boot hd0e:netbsd
Yes, it works without rndseed.




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