Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 00:14:21 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.3-BETA displaying cd0 as an install target? Message-ID: <20040901221421.GA68334@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200409011718.41943.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20040828153451.GA38901@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20040901210625.GA67683@freebie.xs4all.nl> <200409011718.41943.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 05:18:41PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote.. > On Wednesday 01 September 2004 05:06 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 05:34:51PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote.. > > > > > Did anyone see sysinstall listing cd0 as an install target > > > on BETA1, on any other architecture than Alpha? > > > > > > On Alpha, sysinstall presents one with the option on partition > > > and install on cd0. Which is slightly daft.. > > > > It only happens with SCSI CD drives, so things that turn up as cd0. > > ATA CD drives aka acd0 do not get displayed by sysinstall. > > This is probably GEOM related. I wonder if cd0 uses the DISK class unlike > acd0 which uses its own ACD class. I asked phk and he had no obvious issue in mind. But I am not sure if he has seen my email on the acd versus cd difference yet. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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