> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 23:41:34 -0700 (PDT) 
>  Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> wrote:
> 
>  > More generally a system unique identifier available early (pre mountroot)
>  > could be useful for a number of things. Why're you asking?
> 
> The intended usage:
> 
> 	(1) Could influence where it is stored.

Yes.

> 
> 	(2) Might be utterly useless (e.g. for software licensing,
> 	    especially when you have the source for the OS, and
> 	    can thus make it anything you want with a simple
> 	    kernel hack...)

I'm not really concerned about this.