Re: Can NetBSD on USB stick force root to be identified as sd0a?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 07:57:12AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Is there any way to force a USB installation to identify the root as sd0a, 
> when the disk number would normally be variable?
> 
> I could put in kernel config
> 
> config netbsd root on sd0a type ffs
> 
> but would NetBSD still decide for itself and fail to boot if it decides some 
> other device is sd0?

it will. This tells to use root on sd0 and not trying to guess it; but
this doesn't tell NetBSD what sd0 is.

Doens't NetBSD finds the root device automagically ?

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