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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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