OK, I've hit the first major bug (or feature difference) between Bering and Dachstein, which is the handling of the package path.

Dachstein automatically *ALWAYS* includes the boot= device in the packagepath, while Bering seems to completely ignore the boot= device when loading packages (except for a 'hack' to get DoC working if PKGPATH is not defined).

Is this an oversight or the desired behavior?

I initialized the package path to the boot= device for the following reasons:

- Everything works as before if you don't include a PKGPATH setting in the kernel command line or provide a pkgpath.cfg file on the boot= device, ie: backwards compatability.

- There's no real need to specify the same device twice, which wastes kernel command line space (limited to 256 characters).

NOTE: The DoC 'hack' would *NOT* have been required, if the old Dachstein method of including the boot= device in the package path had been implemented.

Before I 'fix' this in the new linuxrc scripts I'm working on, I want to make sure it's not supposed to work the way it does for some reason I don't fully understand.

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Charles Steinkuehler
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