Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 00:43:09 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.dk>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ??? Message-ID: <199903180843.AAA01210@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Mar 1999 14:49:43 %2B0100." <41614.921678583@critter.freebsd.dk>
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This will require relabelling all of one class or the other (new disklabel), or a major overhaul of the way that the root disk is found inside the kernel. IMHO, the latter is where the change needs to happen. SLICE might have made it a little easier, but searching won't actually be all that difficult. Someone want to do the work? > > I think you are missing the point. We will not chuck the old > wd* driver until people have crashed all MFM, RLL, ESDI and !ATA > IDE drives. > > So we WANT to be able to tell the difference... > > Poul-Henning > > In message <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903170447220.17718-100000@feral-gw>, Matthew Jacob w > rites: > > > >I asked Soren just this kind of question, and he declined to answer. I > >doan geddit... > > > >On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > > >> > Boot from an ata disk on major# 30, device name "ad", plain and simple. > >> > >> Does this mean ata disks won't come under CAM/da ? > >> If not, can we PLEASE rename SCSI disks back to ``sd''? > >> > >> -- > >> -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) > >> > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > >> > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member > phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." > FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- \\ 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
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