Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 14:56:45 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl Subject: Re: installation fails Message-ID: <199607210456.OAA25586@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>The second version is to create a `generic' kernel (alas, the GENERIC >kernel is not a `generic' one), and use the -a option to the boot >loader, meaning ``askroot''. A generic kernel is characterized by >just only > config kernel swap generic >as its configuration statement. This is only rarely used by now, but >should probably be used for GENERIC, too. (I'm moving the discussion >to -hackers for that purpose.) Note that `swap' actually means `root' here. I thing support for the -a option should be controlled by a normal kernel option, not a `config kernel ...' option. > wd0 entire ``compatibility'' slice of first IDE disk No, this is the entire disk. It has nothing to do with the compatibility slice. > wd0c the same as above, but expressed as the magic > `c' partition (no BSD label required) This is equivalent to wd0 in the special case when the compatibility slice covers the whole disk, provided the size of the c partition hasn't been reduced. It is common for c partitions to be truncated to a "cylinder" boundary. Such truncation is now usually done in conjunction with similar truncation of the compatibility slice. If the slice is truncated then it won't cover the whole disk. Thus it is unusual for wd0c to be equivalent to wd0. Bruce
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