From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 24 13:21: 5 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 8AFC237B404; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:21:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from valiant.cnchost.com (valiant.concentric.net [207.155.252.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D87E143E4A; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:21:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from bitblocks.com (adsl-209-204-185-216.sonic.net [209.204.185.216]) by valiant.cnchost.com id QAA29385; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 16:20:56 -0400 (EDT) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.14] Message-ID: <200210242020.QAA29385@valiant.cnchost.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Takahashi Yoshihiro , bde@zeta.org.au, 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 "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 19:09:50 +0200." <1103.1035479390@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:20:55 -0700 From: Bakul Shah 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 > Make sure you don't have one of the bogus "ad0a" style devices > listed for your root filesystem. Yup, that indeed was the problem. Thanks! As far as the naming scheme (ad0s1t2u3w4a etc.) is concerned, it is all a hack (historical or not)! It does not follow the One True Hack (pathnames). Years ago (even before the Moronic Boot Record was invented) in a level1 boot I used /// or some such syntax to select what to boot. For example, wd/0/a/kernel instead of wd(0,a)/kernel. Made perfect sense to me: if you have a name-space you name else you index what comes next and recurse. Makes even more sense so when you can have a stackable disk sub-system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message