Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:26:56 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed patch: kern.bootdev* sysctl variables Message-ID: <20020308102656.A9076@iguana.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <p05101521b8aea9bba209@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20020308020009.A6535@iguana.icir.org> <p05101521b8aea9bba209@[128.113.24.47]>
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> >(I know it can be perfected by not assuming that > >any hard disk is /dev/ad, but you get the idea...) > ... > scsi hard drives), and I can also boot off of CD's. If something > like this is added, I think it pretty much has to give the correct > answer in all cases. If not, it should give a helpful clue, but you can get the correct major/minor numbers for the device from kern/bootdev: # sysctl kern.bootdev kern.bootdev: 2687500318 but the mapping to names of course is totally user-dependent. One option could be to use the major/minor numbers to create an entry, /dev/bootdev, to be used later for the mount. Or to add a mount option so you can pass it major/minor numbers as opposed to device names (so you do not need a writable filesystem to create the entry). cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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