From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 2 0:24:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E49514E8E for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 00:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkmale@xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.152.212]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19990902072820.WBEU2478302.mta2-rme@wocker> for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 19:28:20 +1200 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 19:24:48 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: loader prompt seems strange Reply-To: junkmale@xtra.co.nz X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Message-Id: <19990902072820.WBEU2478302.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been reading man loader (don't ask why) and I've found the following bit of trivia: prompt Value of loader's prompt. Defaults to ``${currdev}>''. When I interrupt the loader countdown, I'm presented with a prompt of "disk1s1a:>". The machine in question contains three SCSI drives (da0/da1/da2). Why does the prompt disk1? If I issue an "ls" command, I see what I consider to be da0. Is the prompt one-based, whereas the disks are zero- based? cheers -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsdiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm unix @ home - http://www.unixathome.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message