Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> writes: >> Here's a probably stupid question: since the kernel can detect the "root >> on sd0a" why is there still a need for fstab entry for it? > > Because you might want to specify mount options, or an alternate root.
In fact, I was wondering because I have installed OpenBSD on an usb flash drive. I use softraid and have a script to decrypt the RAID partition and setup a custom fstab with the correct 'sd?' for decrypted devices, it works alrigh. But if root is not sd0a, I have to 'boot bsd.rd' and 'ed /etc/fstab' before. Does anybody doing this and have a better solution? -- Manuel Giraud
