From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 20 3:51:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hun.org (hun.org [216.190.28.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E4914CB4 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 03:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from attila@hun.org) Received: from localhost (attila@localhost) by hun.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA08388; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:51:02 GMT (envelope-from attila@hun.org) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:51:02 +0000 (GMT) From: attila Reply-To: attila@hun.org To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: ROOTDEVNAME error in conf/LINT Message-ID: Owner: attila@hun.org Organization: home for unpenitent hackers and anarcho-cryptophreaks Encrypted: NO MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT options ROOTDEVNAME=\"da0s2e\" must be specified as: options ROOTDEVNAME="da0s2e" else 'make depend' loses the string. w/o quotes it's just an undefined. parser change to eliminate quote requirements for config file defines obviated need for hard quotes in ROOTDEVNAME>. "config" does not grok the errors. am one of those who suffers from lack of politically correct attitude -- I dont do M$lop (refuse to), so why should I worry about slices? never need slices before M$lop.... however, that may change as SCSI disk sizes keep climbing and too large partitions take performance hits. alternative is to change MAXPARTITIONS? to 16? although options ROOTDEVNAME="da0a" does not alleviate necessity of specifying set rootdev=disk1a set currdev=$rootdev in /boot/loader.rc, it's just one more chink; it appears that the only way to beat the final mile is to patch the loader each time I update... attila out... ___ ___ ___ _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ freeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ ___ ____ | _ \__ \ |) | Release 4.0 - The Fast Lane! _ __ ___ ____ _____ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message