diff --git a/src/usr/autoboot.c b/src/usr/autoboot.c
index 482fcd17..e0e017a7 100644
--- a/src/usr/autoboot.c
+++ b/src/usr/autoboot.c
@@ -153,6 +153,38 @@ struct setting skip_san_boot_setting __setting = {
  * @v root_path		Root path
  * @ret rc		Return status code
  */
+int reg_root_path ( const char *root_path ) {
+	struct uri *uri;
+	int drive;
+	int rc;
+
+	/* Parse URI */
+	uri = parse_uri ( root_path );
+	if ( ! uri ) {
+		printf("Unrecognized root path, ignoring\n");
+		return 0; // Not necessarily an error in this case, since this is PXE and FreeBSD may have it's own thing to say, as an example
+	}
+	if ( ( drive = san_hook ( uri, 0 ) ) < 0 ) {
+		rc = drive;
+		printf ( "Could not open SAN device: %s\n",
+			 strerror ( rc ) );
+		uri_put ( uri );
+		return 0;
+	}
+	printf ( "Registered as SAN device %#02x\n", drive );
+	/* Describe SAN device */
+	if ( ( rc = san_describe ( drive ) ) != 0 ) {
+		printf ( "Could not describe SAN device %#02x: %s\n",
+			 drive, strerror ( rc ) );
+		uri_put(uri);
+		return 0;
+	}
+	//If still in function, we registered fine.  
+	//Unclear whether uri should have it's refcnt decremented in this case
+        //in boot_root_path, it would not be, so matching that behavior for now
+	return rc;
+  
+}
 int boot_root_path ( const char *root_path ) {
 	struct uri *uri;
 	int drive;
@@ -247,6 +279,7 @@ int netboot ( struct net_device *netdev ) {
 	struct setting pxe_boot_menu_setting
 		= { .tag = DHCP_PXE_BOOT_MENU };
 	char buf[256];
+	char rbuf[256];
 	struct in_addr next_server;
 	unsigned int pxe_discovery_control;
 	int rc;
@@ -281,6 +314,11 @@ int netboot ( struct net_device *netdev ) {
 	fetch_ipv4_setting ( NULL, &next_server_setting, &next_server );
 	fetch_string_setting ( NULL, &filename_setting, buf, sizeof ( buf ) );
 	if ( buf[0] ) {
+		fetch_string_setting ( NULL, &root_path_setting, rbuf, sizeof ( buf ) );
+		if ( rbuf[0] ) {
+			printf ( "Attempting SAN registration per root path \"%s\"\n", rbuf );
+			reg_root_path ( rbuf );
+		}
 		printf ( "Booting from filename \"%s\"\n", buf );
 		return boot_next_server_and_filename ( next_server, buf );
 	}