flashrd ramdisk Contains /dev and only enough binary to bootstrap vnd image Ramdisk has no way of knowing which disk was booted from Bootstrap routine: /stand/rc for i in sd3a sd2a sd1a sd0a wd3a wd2a wd1a wd0a; do if mount -o rdonly /dev/$i /flash >/dev/null 2>&1; then if test -f /flash/openbsd.vnd; then disk=$i ... fi done ... if ! mount -o noatime,nodev,nosuid /dev/$disk /flash; then echo bootstrap: fatal error mounting $disk to /flash exit 1 fi mkvndmnt /flash