Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:38:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My problems with GEOM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210091035090.14413-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20021009151926.GA19223@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:47:06PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > It still can't even mount root for my configurations. This is because > > it breaks compatibility by dropping support for the devices on the > > first FreeBSD slice being named without a slice number (e.g., ad0a is > > named ad0a, not ad0s<machine-dependent slice number>a). > > Also SCSI CDROM's are now only mountable as /dev/cd0, not /dev/cd0a as > before. I wonder how many others got hit by that. PHK, please add back the old BSD partition types. Too many of my utilities and scripts depend on them. It's a very useful idiom to address the first FreeBSD slice on a disk. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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