On 4/24/06, Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it be hypothetical possible to change the device mounted as (/) > after the system has booted (possibly during the bootstrapping phase)? > > This of course overriding the checks in src/sys/kern/sys_vfs*
if you delete the checks, you could mount something else over / and remount the root device somewhere else. there's no way to do this without modifying source. you can't ever unount the first / mount after init starts, because that would mean revoking init's vnode.