From owner-cvs-all Wed Jul 21 1:25:12 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4505714C39; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 01:25:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16590; Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:27:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1999 09:27:51 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith Cc: cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/libalpha bootinfo.c src/sys/boot/common boot.c bootstrap.h src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 bootinfo.c In-Reply-To: <199907210008.RAA91598@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > msmith 1999/07/20 17:08:55 PDT > > Modified files: > sys/boot/alpha/libalpha bootinfo.c > sys/boot/common boot.c bootstrap.h > sys/boot/i386/libi386 bootinfo.c > Log: > Walk around the end of all the silly guessing of device types and unit > numbers that we have been doing in the past, and read /etc/fstab off the > proposed root filesystem to determine the actual device name and vfs > type for the root filesystem. These are then exported to the kernel > via the environment variable vfs.root.mountfrom. Thats a damn good idea (reading /etc/fstab). -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message