From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 4 15:18:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C33AB37B71A for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:18:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f24NJpj03499; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 15:19:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200103042319.f24NJpj03499@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: well! That root didn't work! Let's try another! In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 04 Mar 2001 13:13:36 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 15:19:51 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > There are two schools of thought here. One says "you should try very > > hard to find a root device", the other says "you should boot only from > > the exactly correct root device and complain otherwise". I took the > > first approach because its advocates shouted more loudly than those of > > the second. > > > > Would a louder warning message be enough of a compromised? > > Actually, no. I think very strongly that you shouldn't always look that hard > automatically- you should look hard to find reasonable choices (you could say, > da2, 7 and 9 have what *appear* to be filesystems I can use)- but you > shouldn't just launch onto them- vital customer data corruption can result. It doesn't even try that hard; on the Alpha, we try the entry from /etc/fstab, and if that fails, we try da0. The only less-aggressive option is to not try da0. > This might also be the source of the 'going nowhere without my init' install > failures that so plague alphas? No, these are caused by sysinstall (probably libdisk) exiting without a useful diagnostic. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message