From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 16 02:43:12 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA29268 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 02:43:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (slip139-92-122-99.joh.za.ibm.net [139.92.122.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA29263 for ; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 02:43:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id MAA19796; Sat, 16 Jan 1999 12:42:03 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199901161042.MAA19796@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: a few suggestions/comments on 3.0-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <199901151945.NAA01458@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu> from Igor Roshchin at "Jan 15, 99 01:45:29 pm" To: igor@physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin) Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 12:42:00 +0200 (SAT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (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 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