On Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:15:16 -0400 
 christos@deshaw.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:

 > | Perhaps the test in init should not be "if root is msdosfs" but
 > | something more general-purpose, like "if /dev/console does not exist"
 > | (for example), or even "if /etc/MAKEDEV exists" or whatever.
 > 
 > I had it this way before and Jason asked me to add the msdosfs check.

I suppose we could just check against /dev/console, but I'm concerned
about "what if the file system got trashed?"

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