Due to technical constraints, my setup requires that I have a separate
boot partition (basically the kernel and anything else critical for
booting), and then of course my root partition other data partitions on a
separate disk.
I'm kind of new to OpenBSD, and so far what I've managed to do is copy
/bsd to a separate partition, then at the boot> prompt I run "boot hd0a
-a", then specify my root partition when prompted by the kernel. While
this has the desired effect, I'd rather not run this every time I want to
boot OpenBSD. Is there a kernel parameter I can pass that lets the kernel
know ahead of time the root device I wish to mount?
Basically I'm looking for the OpenBSD equivalent of root=/dev/xxx Linux
kernel parameter. I think I managed to get FreeBSD working similarly with
the vfs.root.mountfrom= parameter, but this doesn't appear to exist in
OpenBSD.
Thanks for looking into this.
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Joseph Alten
