From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 8 15:13:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27259 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 15:13:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA27254 for ; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 15:13:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA23724; Sun, 8 Mar 1998 15:12:19 -0800 (PST) To: Mikael Karpberg cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys reboot.h src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 08 Mar 1998 16:32:10 +0100." <199803081532.QAA06008@ocean.campus.luth.se> Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 15:12:19 -0800 Message-ID: <23720.889398739@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Er... Excuse me for the maybe silly question, but WHY is this done? It's inconsistent to have every partition *other* than the root partition use the compatability slice, that's why, and there's nasty code in sysinstall to deliberately do the non-obvious thing for root partitions specifically because you can't boot off a correctly specified root partition. It's a win and there's nothing "cumbersome" about using the proper name for a slice, the use of the compatability naming was always a hack to work around limitations elsewhere. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message