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Date:      Sat, 5 Jan 2002 07:29:23 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 bootinfo.c
Message-ID:  <20020105072719.C21854-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020104014417.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, John Baldwin wrote:

> On 04-Jan-02 John Baldwin wrote:
> > jhb         2002/01/03 23:59:27 PST
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/boot/i386/libi386 bootinfo.c
> >   Log:
> >   Don't turn on RB_CDROM if the rootdev is a BIOS cd device for now as this
> >   breaks when cdboot is used with an MFS root.
>
> This isn't really right.  The problem is that for an MFS root, we leave the
> root dev in the loader pointing to whatever, and RB_CDROM takes precedence over
> MD_ROOT.  A more proper fix might be to allow the rootdev to be set to "mfs" or
> "md0" or some such and have the loader allow that.  Then if the user leaves cd0

I thought that RB_CDROM was only set by the old bootblocks.  Bootblocks
that are less than 2 years old should set vfs.root.mountfrom to
<vfsname>[:<path>], and not shoot their foot off by setting deprecated
flags.

Bruce


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