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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:07:50 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        mjacob@feral.com, "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ??? 
Message-ID:  <45274.921748070@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:43:09 PST." <199903180843.AAA01210@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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SLICES, if done right, would make SO many things so much easier.

Poul-Henning

In message <199903180843.AAA01210@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes:
>  
>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 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!


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