From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 21 13:26:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles514.castles.com [208.214.165.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BCFD153CD for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:24:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00959; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:14:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908212014.NAA00959@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Soren Schmidt Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), geoffr@is.co.za, brian@pobox.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA - Trouble mounting secondary master In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:29:47 +0200." <199908211029.MAA44285@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:14:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > So I still stick with my statement that the -current bootblocks/loader > doesn't have the computrons needed to use the ad device (or any non > wd/da/fd device for that matter) for anything usefull :) The loader is fine; the problem is just that Poul never finished fixing = the mountroot code. All the loader does is read /etc/fstab and pass in = the entry for /. It's up to the kernel to work it out from there, and = that's where it's falling down. -- = \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message