From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 18 0:52:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles193.castles.com [208.214.165.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5882215455 for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:52:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01210; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:43:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199903180843.AAA01210@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: mjacob@feral.com, "David O'Brien" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ??? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 17 Mar 1999 14:49:43 +0100." <41614.921678583@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:43:09 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This will require relabelling all of one class or the other (new disklabel), or a major overhaul of the way that the root disk is found inside the kernel. IMHO, the latter is where the change needs to happen. SLICE might have made it a little easier, but searching won't actually be all that difficult. Someone want to do the work? > > I think you are missing the point. We will not chuck the old > wd* driver until people have crashed all MFM, RLL, ESDI and !ATA > IDE drives. > > So we WANT to be able to tell the difference... > > Poul-Henning > > In message , Matthew Jacob w > rites: > > > >I asked Soren just this kind of question, and he declined to answer. I > >doan geddit... > > > >On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > > >> > Boot from an ata disk on major# 30, device name "ad", plain and simple. > >> > >> Does this mean ata disks won't come under CAM/da ? > >> If not, can we PLEASE rename SCSI disks back to ``sd''? > >> > >> -- > >> -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) > >> > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > >> > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message