From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 12 06:55:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA02470 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 06:55:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA02452 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 06:54:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17427; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 15:49:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from karpen) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199803121449.PAA17427@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: HEADS UP! (was: cvs commit: src/sys/sys reboot.h src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c) In-Reply-To: <199803111950.LAA24155@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Mar 11, 98 11:50:52 am" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 15:49:42 +0100 (CET) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Mike Smith: > The bootstrap needs to be taught how to parse the slice number, perhaps > in an extended syntax such as xd(unit,slice,part)kernel although it > would make more sense to me to switch to eg. sd0s1a:/kernel. That would be most welcome. Then it would be possible, even easy, to remember it, and way more logical from a user perspective, at least. > (This isn't going to happen in the short term though; too much > backwards-compatability grief.) Hmm... Isn't this something which is purely userinterface? And if not, why not? /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message