From owner-freebsd-qa Fri Feb 18 7:56:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from melete.ch.intel.com (melete.ch.intel.com [143.182.246.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E32337B9F9 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 07:56:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com) Received: from sedona.intel.com (sedona.ch.intel.com [143.182.218.21]) by melete.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a+p1/8.9.1/d: relay.m4,v 1.19 2000/01/29 00:15:43 dmccart Exp $) with ESMTP id PAA16513; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:57:26 GMT Received: from hip186.ch.intel.com (hip186.ch.intel.com [143.182.225.68]) by sedona.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: sendmail.cf,v 1.10 2000/02/10 21:38:16 steved Exp $) with ESMTP id IAA18150; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 08:56:21 -0700 (MST) X-Envelope-From: jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Received: (from jreynold@localhost) by hip186.ch.intel.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/d: client.m4,v 1.3 1998/09/29 16:36:11 sedayao Exp sedayao $) id KAA09796; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 10:56:21 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: hip186.ch.intel.com: jreynold set sender to jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com using -f From: John Reynolds~ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14509.27556.777321.702434@hip186.ch.intel.com> Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 08:56:20 -0700 (MST) To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question regarding root_disk_unit ... In-Reply-To: <38ACB564.3BE691D8@newsguy.com> References: <14508.13850.725857.718236@hip186.ch.intel.com> <38ACB564.3BE691D8@newsguy.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.3.11 Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ On Friday, February 18, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: ] > > We cannot reliably set root_disk_unit because we have no reliable way of > correlating what the kernel sees to what the BIOS sees. > > In other words, it requires human intervention. > > The solution we (well, Mike) are aiming at is completely doing away with > the _need_ for this. In fact, afaik, 4.0 doesn't need it. Oh, OK. Like I said in the message, this was 3.4--I hadn't booted up 4.0 on the EIDE disk with the SCSI disks installed at all, so I couldn't see the need (if any) for the tweak. > Hey, Mike, if 4.0 doesn't need it, can we deprecate it? > > I dunno if Ebola 98 is capable of booting off anything but the primary > partition of the first disk. CRAP. Yeah, probably you're right.... when I slap the EIDE in there, it is the "first" disk. If I try and boot Ebola '98 from the first partition of my first scsi drive, as far as it's concerned its the "second" drive. Crap Crap Crap. Looks like I'll be investigating VMware sooner than I thought :) -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message