Jared D. McNeill writes:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Todd Vierling wrote:
> > You don't want a .fs if you will be using dosboot and want to do an install.
> > Instead, you want .../NetBSD-1.5/binary/kernel/netbsd.INSTALL.gz (a kernel
> > with the ramdisk embedded).  The .fs are for real floppy media booting.
> 
> Just out of curiousity, what happens after the kernel is loaded -- doesn't
> it need to load the root filesystem from somewhere?

The root filesystem is written into the kernel during the build process.
There is no mechanism for loading the root filesystem from disk, it must
be in the kernel already.

-Andrew