From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 24 10:48:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23058 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:48:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA23053 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:48:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA01925; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:48:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA00525; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:48:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199811241840.KAA24530@mango.parc.xerox.com> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 10:48:27 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Bill Fenner Subject: Re: Is fsck broken for autoboot? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message