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Re: boot>

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Aaron Campbell:
> At the boot prompt, I usually enter:
> 
> 	/kernelname
> 
> to boot the desired kernel off the root partition. If you make a typo, and
> then enter a valid /kernelname, it doesn't do anything:
> 
> boot> /bsdwhoops
> booting hd0a:/bsdwhoops:  failed(2). will try /obsd
> boot> /bsd
> boot>
actually entering just the kernel name as well as just kernel options
is just a compatibility w/ the old boot.
the command to boot the kernel is 'boot' which always works.

cu

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