The thing is that by default, you end up with:

root on * fstype *

in most config files.  That's the one thing I *don't* hardwire because
I never know if I'm going to need to emergency-boot.

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

# Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 08:41:35 +0100 (CET)
# From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
# To: Anne Bennett <anne@alcor.concordia.ca>
# Cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
# Subject: Re: booting wrong partition (1.4.1)
#
# >                           this copy will not boot properly.  When I
# >                           specify "boot wd0a:netbsd", or even "boot
# >                           wd0a:netbsd.generic" at the boot prompt, I
# >                           get:
#
# boot wd0a:netbsd -as
#
# and then answer questions about root and dump device
#
# then in singleuser mount /, edit /etc/fstab change lines, then cd
# /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf, edit config to match root device etc.,
# config,compile, install, reboot
#
#
#


				--*greywolf;
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