Date: Sun, 08 Mar 1998 15:12:19 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> 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 Message-ID: <23720.889398739@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 08 Mar 1998 16:32:10 %2B0100." <199803081532.QAA06008@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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> 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
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