From owner-cvs-all Sat Feb 14 04:11:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA13022 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:11:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA12893; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:09:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA21988; Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:08:54 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802141208.EAA21988@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Ollivier Robert cc: core@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wfd block major number reassignment from 24 to 1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 14 Feb 1998 12:23:56 +0100." <19980214122356.59611@keltia.freenix.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 04:08:53 -0800 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id EAB12894 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > According to Mike Smith: > > They have certainly addressed just about everything that I recall us > > ever having discussed as an issue, and a number that hadn't occurred to > > me. > > Can we have a 3-stage bootloader *without* encoding the blocks number in > the first stage (à la SunOS / Lilo) ? I've already made my opinions on this known; I haven't heard much comment elsewhere, but I doubt that there would be many takers for such an animal. (ie. yes, I think we can.) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message