Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:48:27 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is fsck broken for autoboot? Message-ID: <XFMail.981124104827.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199811241840.KAA24530@mango.parc.xerox.com>
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On 24-Nov-98 Bill Fenner wrote:
> I don't know when -stable switched to real slices, but I was experiencing
> this problem when I was booting a mix of 2.2.2 (required compatibility
> slice) and 2.2.6 (required real slice) kernels on the same machine - if I
> put the "compatible" device in fstab, the 2.2.6 kernel would fail to mount
> / if fsck had to fix it.
My -stable machine is fairly recent, so it should be OK to change it. Thanks
for the advice.
More evidence: a different -stable machine came back up fine. I just checked,
and it does not use the compatibility slice.
On the failing -current machine, I may be stuck. For work-related reasons, I
sometimes have to run an older kernel which requires the compatibility slice on
that machine. I guess I could set it up with a separate root partition for the
old kernel.
John
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