Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 12:42:00 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: igor@physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a few suggestions/comments on 3.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <199901161042.MAA19796@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <199901151945.NAA01458@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> from Igor Roshchin at "Jan 15, 99 01:45:29 pm"
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Igor Roshchin wrote: > I've encountered this problems while installing 3.0-RELEASE > on a PII-350 with ASUS P2B-LS motherboard (i.e. there > is Adaptec U2W adapter and Intel EtherExpress 100/10 on board) > All HDDs are UW SCSI. > 2. I didn't find any documentation in the man pages which describes > the features of the new bootstrap - i.e. that it is capable of handling > slice number. > /boot.help doesn't have that reference either. > (I mean the possibility of specifying "2:da(1,2,a)kernel" > where the second "2" is for the slice number) > The only place I found where it was addressed was somebody's > answer in -questions archive, and on the -stable list. The documentation is slowly being updated to reflect the features of the new boot code. There's nothing about specifying slices yet; though the preferred way to accomplish most boot stuff in 3.x is by way of the all-singing, all-dancing /boot/loader program rather than boot2. > Also, it might be nice if the disklabel(8) man pages explicitely > say that the bootstrap code can be installed on each slice. > (am I wrong ?) You're right, the bootblocks can be installed on each slice, and this also needs documenting. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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