Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:51:35 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BETA problems... Message-ID: <199810131951.MAA00781@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:20:45 %2B0200." <199810131020.MAA14896@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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> > The difficulty lies in working out which physical drives the BIOS > > numbers correspond to. Unless you have a *very* new system, there is > > simply no way to know that the BIOS drive 0x81 is in fact wd2. In > > order for this to work, the user has to provide the missing data, > > either by typing 1:wd(2a)kernel every time (tedious) or putting it in > > /boot.config. > > Well... sysinstall knows you will have this problem since it knows you have > a wd2 but not wd1. it seems it would be trivial to make sysinstall put > a /kernel.config with that info in it on the root if you put the root on wd2? Funny you should mention this; I was just pondering where the possible failure cases for this might lie. Mostly, they're only where you'd break the generated /etc/fstab as well, so I think it's a goer. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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