From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 17 01:47:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA08700 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 01:47:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zed.ludd.luth.se (zed.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA08695 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 01:46:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from max@ludd.luth.se) Received: from taurus.ludd.luth.se (max@taurus.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.37]) by zed.ludd.luth.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA14212 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:46:54 +0100 Received: (max@localhost) by taurus.ludd.luth.se (8.6.11/8.6.11) id KAA12850; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:47:00 +0100 Message-ID: <19980317104700.51973@taurus.ludd.luth.se> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:47:00 +0100 From: Max Nilsson To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Am I using a SCSI tape-device as root file system ? :-) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. My new current-kernel is drunk. cvsup:ed and compiled on Tue Mar 16 1998 'dmesg' tells me the following: npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface changing root device to st1s1a ^^^^^^ I did not know that you can use a tape-device as root file-system. :) And I did not know that you can have partition-slices on a tape. :-) /Max -- Max Nilsson E-mail: max@ludd.luth.se -- -- Vänortsvägen 5 Tele: +46-(0)920-94202 -- -- 977 54 Luleå @home: homer.campus.luth.se -- -- Sweden -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message