From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 3 18:13:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA04621 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 18:13:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04614 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 18:13:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA02357; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 18:15:19 -0800 (PST) To: Robert Nordier cc: joelh@gnu.org (Joel Ray Holveck), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Dec 1998 03:57:24 +0200." <199812040157.DAA21505@ceia.nordier.com> Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 18:15:18 -0800 Message-ID: <2353.912737718@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > DOS opens a major can of worms. The worms may stay in the can, or > they may not; either way, the result is simply dubious. By > comparison, a clean boot approach is simple and failsafe. And, to put it more bluntly, is just fine for our needs (a demo mode running out of a DOS partition, remember folks? :-). Who do I have to kil^H^H^Hpay to have this work done? We want it and we want it yesterday. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message