Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:29:48 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: dcs@newsguy.com, mike@smith.net.au Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ??? Message-ID: <199903212229.JAA27264@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Correct. I was looking for a field in the disklabel that I could spam >with a suitable number based on the time from the RTC, and I'd then There isn't one. Especially when there is no disklabel or a read-only disklabel. >> Again, same objections... :-) > >Same solutions. Plus we'd be likely to place some metadata somewhere >on a FAT filesystem, so it'd be trivial to put such a field there. Similar objections. Disks should be write protected to inhibit spam :-). I pass "foo" from 1:foo(2s1a)kernel in my version of the old boot blocks. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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