Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 05:07:02 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Thomas Moestl <t.moestl@tu-bs.de> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_cd.c src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c atapi-cd.h src/sys/isa fd.c Message-ID: <1212.1063336022@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Sep 2003 03:39:31 %2B0200." <20030912013930.GB691@timesink.dyndns.org>
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In message <20030912013930.GB691@timesink.dyndns.org>, Thomas Moestl writes: >On Fri, 2003/09/12 at 02:10:13 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <20030911235214.GA691@timesink.dyndns.org>, Thomas Moestl writes: >> >> >The cloning handlers in the CD-ROM drivers used to be required to >> >mount root from CD-ROM, which is e.g. required for the bootable >> >sparc64 distribution disks. Have things changed so that they are no >> >longer needed while I wasn't watching, or does this change break that >> >case? >> >> Wouldn't that just be a matter of fixing the '/' line in /etc/fstab ? > >I don't think so. The cloning handler is used exclusively to determine >rootdev, so devices which do not use disk_create() and thus do not get s/disk_create/disk_create or make_dev/ Which means that they are all covered. >that for free need to implement their own handler, or they will be >ignored. The made-up 'a' and 'c' partitions which also happen to be >cloned (or in the cd(4) case are the only ones that are cloned, which >probably needs to be fixed) are a separate issue. It is only the 'a' and 'c' clones which have been disabled. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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