AUTOCONF(4)

NAME
autoconf - diagnostics from the autoconfiguration code

DESCRIPTION
When OpenBSD bootstraps it probes the innards of the machine on which it is running and locates controllers, drives, and other devices, printing out what it finds on the console. This procedure is driven by a system configuration table which is processed by config(8) and compiled into each kernel. Devices which exist in the machine but are not configured into the kernel are not detected.

Normally, the system uses the disk from which it was loaded as the root filesystem. If such a system is booted with the RB_ASKNAME option (see reboot(2)), then the name of the root device is read from the console terminal at boot time, and any available device may be used.

SEE ALSO
intro(4), boot_hp300(8), config(8)