From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 24 11:30:23 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 777D337B401; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:30:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 221AB43E42; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 11:30:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9OITvrF002307; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:29:58 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Bruce Evans Cc: Bakul Shah , Takahashi Yoshihiro , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 2002 04:24:07 +1000." <20021025041846.B1170-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 20:29:57 +0200 Message-ID: <2306.1035484197@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20021025041846.B1170-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> In message <200210241603.MAA18418@leviathan.cnchost.com>, Bakul Shah writes: >> >> >Here is a *non* PC98 machine report. My 4 year old Toshiba >> >Ultium (a Ppro machine with onboard aic 7880 scsi controller) >> >does not boot. It can't find the root device and drops into >> >the rootmount menu. Until now I haven't had any time to even >> >hook up a serial port -- hope to send a more detailed report >> >today. >> >> Make sure you don't have one of the bogus "ad0a" style devices >> listed for your root filesystem. > >Yes, standard slice names are now decreed bogus. You have to use >i386-centric names like ad0s4a, at least on i386's with disks that >actually have slices. Please stop the FUD Bruce. First of all, this is no longer architecture dependent. You can use MBR's on your sparc64 if you for some reason feel like it. Second, the names follow what is on the disk. If your disk has only a BSD disklabel, then the names will be constructed by appending a single letter and we get: ${disk}[a-h] If your disk has an MBR, then the slices are named by appending "s%d" so the names become: ${disk}s[1-N] If you put a BSD disklabel in one of the slices, the name will still be constructed by appending a single letter, so the names become: ${slice}[a-h] or if you like ${disk}s[1-N][a-h] -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message