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| root device [hdbias] | Command |
Set the current root device to the device device, then
attempt to mount it to get the partition size (for passing the partition
descriptor in ES:ESI, used by some chain-loaded boot loaders), the
BSD drive-type (for booting BSD kernels using their native boot format),
and correctly determine the PC partition where a BSD sub-partition is
located. The optional hdbias parameter is a number to tell a BSD
kernel how many BIOS drive numbers are on controllers before the current
one. For example, if there is an IDE disk and a SCSI disk, and your
FreeBSD root partition is on the SCSI disk, then use a 1 for
hdbias.
See also rootnoverify. |