From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 21 20:24:26 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id UAA28341 for current-outgoing; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:24:26 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id UAA28322 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:24:21 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA22248 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:24:18 -0700 To: current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Of slices and boot code.. Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:24:17 -0700 Message-ID: <22246.809061857@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Would it be reasonable to assume that our current boot code will never have a chance of dealing with the root partition via a "slice?" It's kind of a pity since I've gotten a lot of tech support emails from people who were very confused that / showed up on `sd0a' while everything else was on a slice. It makes a somewhat confusing model (to the uninitiated) even more confusing since just when they think they're understanding it (and, in fact, ARE) that comes along to trip them up. Sigh. Jordan