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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: ROOTDEVNAME error in conf/LINT 
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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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