Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 19:51:49 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed patch: kern.bootdev* sysctl variables Message-ID: <48207.1015613509@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Mar 2002 10:26:56 PST." <20020308102656.A9076@iguana.icir.org>
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In message <20020308102656.A9076@iguana.icir.org>, Luigi Rizzo writes: >> >(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. Uhm devname(3) ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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