From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 13 00:10:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA21988 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:10:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles341.castles.com [208.214.167.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA21933 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:09:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA02789; Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:06:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901130806.AAA02789@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" cc: "FreeBSD-Current" Subject: Re: Boot of secondary IDE master by 3.0.1 branch In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:05:31 CST." <001301be3e4d$c35d2d20$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 00:06:19 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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 > ?)? Yes, presuming that someone is willing to look at the code and work out why it's currently failing. This situation may require user input; I don't recall you responding to my suggestion to set num_ide_disks to -1 (a very counter-intuitive technique, I agree). -- \\ 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 freebsd-current" in the body of the message