On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:57:10AM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
>  - boot from "wd0a"  (= "boot disk" in OpenBoot)
>  - mount root file system from "wd1a", load /sbin/init from there, etc.

You can hardwire the root filesystem in your kernel configuration with
a line like this:

config		netbsd	root on wd1a type ffs

The kernel would however have to reside on the "wd0a".

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/