On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Brett Lymn wrote:

> According to Jeremy C. Reed:
> >
> >Is this the same as the following line?
> >#config         netbsd  root on sd0a type ffs
> >
>
> Yes, that is the line that will tell the kernel where the root file
> system is and can tell it what dump device to use.  Mostly, the kernel
> can work out for itself what the root device and fs are but sometimes
> it needs to be told.

But, didn't the original poster say it was stopping at the bootloader
">" prompt, before the kernel's even loaded? I can't see why it would
do that -- maybe the [SPACE] key is stuck?


Frederick