Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 06:16:47 GMT From: attila! <attila@hun.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ROOTDEVNAME error in conf/LINT Message-ID: <199906210616.GAA10996@hun.org>
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* From mike@smith.net.au Mon Jun 21 05:41:50 1999
* Subject: Re: ROOTDEVNAME error in conf/LINT
*
* attila said:
* >
* > am one of those who suffers from lack of politically correct
* > attitude -- I dont do M$lop (refuse to), so why should I
* > worry about slices? never need slices before M$lop.... however,
* > that may change as SCSI disk sizes keep climbing and too large
* > partitions take performance hits.
*
* Has nothing to do with Microsoft. Has everything to do with correct
* disk layout. Must use slice entries for system disks likely to be
* shared with other operating systems. Should use "truly dedicated" disk
* layout for non-shared disks. Defect in libdisk prevents this. Fix
* libdisk. Become hero.
*
well, maybe it is not exclusively M$lop, but I do not
run other operating systems... I'm a real BSD bigot.
so I run "dangerously dedicated". start with your
definition of virgin -out of the box drives and
install the old way.
never had to live with the boot sector virus from
Redmond...
manually create fstab and partitions for a pair of IBM
4.5G UW2 SCSIs:
# Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass#
/dev/da0b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/da1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/da0a / ufs rw 1 1
/dev/da0e /user ufs rw 2 2
/dev/da0f /var ufs rw 2 2
/dev/da0g /usr ufs rw 2 2
/dev/da1e /tmp ufs rw 2 2
/dev/da1f /x1 ufs rw 2 2
/dev/da1g /x2 ufs rw 2 2
/dev/da1h /x3 ufs rw 2 2
/dev/cd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
manually (with a script) create the device entries and
wipe out any of the slice entries, wd entries and
other non-functionals.
the boot/loader in 4.0 wants to start you off with
disk1s1; first I modified it manually at load, then
added /boot/loader.rc
load /kernel
set rootdev=disk1a
set currdev=$rootdev
autoboot
and off we go --no problems.
so, what is the problem in "libdisk" and how do I
"become a hero"?
--I'm no hero to my 5 kids anymore... might be nice to
be known other than as 'pops', 'gramps', or 'the old
fart' for a change.
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