From owner-freebsd-ia64 Thu Nov 21 19: 5:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C26837B401; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:05:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.BAYAREA.NET [209.128.86.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D11E43E4A; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:05:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (athlon.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.3]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAM35h0N058179; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:05:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAM35htE001371; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:05:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by athlon.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAM35h2W001370; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:05:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:05:43 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Peter Wemm Cc: John Baldwin , ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gotchas when trying 5.0-DP2 Message-ID: <20021122030543.GB1241@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <20021121225856.GB1368@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20021122010100.6B7882A885@canning.wemm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021122010100.6B7882A885@canning.wemm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:01:00PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > > We could write a pretty trivial efidisk driver and then use the loader's > ufs support. But having everything run from the EFI fs has been so > convenient I've never felt the urge to try it. Me too > Trying to *find* the block device that corresponds to /boot would be the > interesting challenge. Especially since the numbering changes as the > device configuration changes. Going into the shell has shown as many as 25 > efi block devices on systems I've seen before. We can always create a new UUID for that of course :-) Alternatively, we could use the UUID specific bits in ent_attr, (bits 48-63) to flag an UFS partition as possible root (meaning that it contains /boot and such). -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message