From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Oct 26 10:30:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FFCD37B408 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 10:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6060043E65 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 10:29:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9QGbApk016309 for ; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 10:37:10 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 10:36:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20021026.103652.66766445.imp@bsdimp.com> To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_disk.c write_i386_disk.c write_pc98_disk.c From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: References: <200210251909.g9PJ9d4F078508@dotar.thuvia.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: Julian Elischer writes: : : : On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Mark Valentine wrote: : : > : > The GEOM naming scheme therefore removes my ability to specify the partition : > in the most natural way for this platform. : I dispute that. : The install code has been using ad0s1a for about 5 years I think. : Very few systems have ad0a in /etc/fstab as we specifically have been : telling people to not do that for ages.. When this discussion began, it was not possible to recover from this error, short of booting a nonGEOM kernel. phk has fixed the -a code, which is what the kernel uses when it can't find the device specified in the fstab. At least you'd be able to get to single user and fix fstab now. So even if people had these, they would be able to fix them when they went old kernel -> new kernel (or back out to old kernel and fix them in multi-user). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message