On Sat, 02 May 2009 21:26:05 -0600 Theo de Raadt
<dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote:

> > Another way would be through creating/editing /etc/boot.conf and  
> > having an entry for the mp kernel
> > ex:  boot wd0a:/bsd.mp
> > 
> > where wd0a is your root partition.
> 
> I recommend against that.
> 
> Firstly, one developer has already been fried on an upgrade using the
> -current bsd.rd
> 
> Secondly, it is not portable to all our architectures, so why do it?
> 

Thirdly, it should be removed. The new installer destined for 4.6
already does the right thing, so the i386\amd64 specific etc/boot.conf
hack is redundant and leads to confusion.

-- 
J.C. Roberts

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