Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:36:52PM +0530, Tapan Chaudhari wrote:
> Hi All,
>     I am new to FreeBSD and this mailing list as well.
> What I want to achieve is change the device of my mount point '/'(or any
> other mount point) after I reboot the machine. I have some knowledge about
> initrd in Linux in which I can change the device for '/' and than reboot the
> machine so that it takes a new device for '/'.
> How can I achieve this in FreeBSD? I am using the latest release 7.0. Any
> pointers will be helpful.

I think you're looking for the loader variables rootdev or
root.vfs.mountrootfsfrom.

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