From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 25 14:57:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA26590 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:57:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hawaii.conterra.com (hawaii.conterra.com [209.12.164.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26585 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:57:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myself@conterra.com) Received: from dmaddox.conterra.com (dmaddox.conterra.com [209.12.169.48]) by hawaii.conterra.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA08909; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:56:54 -0500 (EST) Received: (from myself@localhost) by dmaddox.conterra.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id RAA01137; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:56:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from myself) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:56:53 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: "Donald J . Maddox" Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Tom Torrance , Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_3 boot panic Message-ID: <19990125175653.C934@dmaddox.conterra.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@conterra.com References: <36AC4879.A8246685@newsguy.com> <19990125172732.A934@dmaddox.conterra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990125172732.A934@dmaddox.conterra.com>; from Donald J . Maddox on Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:27:32PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:27:32PM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 07:33:29PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Tom Torrance wrote: > > > > > > The last change broke the set num_ide_disks=1 which had worked, but > > > no longer does... > > > > It was broken for a few hours. Num_ide_disks should be working > > again, for those which relied on it on the past (like you :). Though > > I get the feeling that everyone who used num_ide_disks ended up > > suping the broken version of loader... > > > > Stay with the new mechanism, though. > > Hmmm... I had the same problem as Tom yesterday, and I never used > num_ide_disks before. Now it doesn't work _unless_ I use num_ide_disks. Sorry to reply to my own message, but I just realized that I added root_disk_unit at the same time I added num_ide_disks, and _that_ is the one that is required now. Before num_ide_disks was 'deprecated', I needed neither of these. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message