Mounting / using /dev/ufs/name

[Frank Mayhar]

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 19:00 +0100, Václav Haisman wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried to mount root slice using the device nodes provided in /dev/ufs
> directory. It works fine for other slices but not for the root slice. If I
> try it I get prompt asking for root slice at boot time. It this not possible
> at all or am I doing something wrong?

If you don't have geom_label built into the kernel it's a chicken-egg
problem.  Even if you do, early startup almost certainly doesn't have
devfs available yet.
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