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Date:      Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:09:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
To:        phk@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP! GEOM as default in 5 days...
Message-ID:  <200210012309.g91N9VEO008362@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021001.135451.74539056.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>

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OK; after building today's -CURRENt on my build machine, I had time to
try building the kernel again, but with GEOM.

3 observations so far:

* Nearly everything still works.  :-)

* A verbose boot (my default on the machine in question, since I
  often need to check things or quote boot messages) with GEOM is *very*
  verbose.  Just thought it might be of interest to mention this.

* The ability to use boot0cfg to change the default boot slice seems
  broken:

freebeast(5.0-C)[4] sudo boot0cfg -v ad0
#   flag     start chs   type       end chs       offset         size
1   0x00      0:  1: 1   0xa5    260:254:63           63      4192902
2   0x00    261:  0: 1   0xa5    521:254:63      4192965      4192965
3   0x00    522:  0: 1   0xa5    782:254:63      8385930      4192965
4   0x80    783:  0: 1   0xa5   1023:254:63     12578895     67697910

version=1.0  drive=0x80  mask=0xf  ticks=182
options=nopacket,update,nosetdrv
default_selection=F4 (Slice 4)
freebeast(5.0-C)[5] sudo boot0cfg -s 1 ad0 && sudo halt -p
boot0cfg: /dev/ad0: Operation not permitted
freebeast(5.0-C)[6] 

  Is this intentional?  (I run the box headless, and boot different
  vesions of FreeBSD on different slices.  Generally, I use slice 1
  for today's -STABLE and slice 4 for today's -CURRENT; the other
  slices get clones of these, then get various forms of "customization"
  (hacks) that I test.)

Cheers,
david       (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david)
-- 
David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
To paraphrase David Hilbert, there can be no conflicts between the
discipline of systems administration and Microsoft, since they have
nothing in common.

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