From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 12 09:06:22 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA12430 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:06:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (mortar.carlson.com [208.240.12.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12421 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:06:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (root@localhost) by mortar.carlson.com with ESMTP id LAA02540 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:04:58 -0600 (CST) Received: from w142844 ([172.25.99.35]) by mortar.carlson.com with SMTP id LAA02536 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:04:58 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <001301be3e4d$c35d2d20$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "FreeBSD-Current" Subject: Boot of secondary IDE master by 3.0.1 branch Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:05:31 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know that this subject has been beaten to death, but I have to ask a very general question. Will /boot/loader be able to boot an elf kernel off of the secondary IDE master (wd2s1a) by the time the source code branches of on the 15th (date ?)? I assume that from that point on we will see both a 3.0 -current and -stable tree. I realize that -stable will take time to stablize, but I would assume that there would have to be a known path to stablization, or it would be no different than -current. I was under the impression that this would require a kernel change so that it would recognize the $rootdev variable as the device to boot from. If this isn't to be in by the branch date, which branch should I follow more closely to get this? Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message