Quentin Garnier <cube@cubidou.net> wrote:

> The workaround is to specify the major and minor numbers instead of
> the name of the device, i.e.:

> config netbsd root on ? type ffs dumps on major 0 minor 524288

Thanks, that worked.

> I really hate that awful hack.  It will probably prevent booting an
> amd64 kernel on an i386 userland for as long as we lack devfs...

Why this? Isn't it only a problem if using partitions beyond 'h'?

regards,
chris