On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 05:18:55PM +0200, Andreas Gustafsson wrote: > Since jmcneill's commit of src/lib/libutil/getfsspecname.c 1.5, NetBSD > supports the special string "ROOT." as an alias for the root device in > /etc/fstab. This can be used to avoid hard-coding the device name of > the root disk on bootable disk images, allowing a single image to be > booted from disks having different device names.
I'd be careful as especially on x86, the boot device detection is somewhat flaky. The firmware interface is just too limited. Joerg
