From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 18 1: 8:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CCE514C2B for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 01:08:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA04182; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:08:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA45276; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:07:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Mike Smith 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 "Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:43:09 PST." <199903180843.AAA01210@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:07:50 +0100 Message-ID: <45274.921748070@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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