Re: altroot

Greg Troxel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Edgar Fuß <[email protected]> writes:

> Whats the point of /altroot? hier(7) says "Alternate root file system, 
> in case of disaster." Is there a way to boot such that / is not inode 2, 
> but that of altroot?

From long ago practice, this presumes that altroot is a separate disk
partition, and that you have / and /usr separate too.  So you'd tell the
bootloader to boot from the altroot partition instead, and presumably it
is mounted at /altroot when up so you can write to it.
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