Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 19:05:43 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Gotchas when trying 5.0-DP2 Message-ID: <20021122030543.GB1241@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20021122010100.6B7882A885@canning.wemm.org> References: <20021121225856.GB1368@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20021122010100.6B7882A885@canning.wemm.org>
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On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:01:00PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > > We could write a pretty trivial efidisk driver and then use the loader's > ufs support. But having everything run from the EFI fs has been so > convenient I've never felt the urge to try it. <aol>Me too</aol> > Trying to *find* the block device that corresponds to /boot would be the > interesting challenge. Especially since the numbering changes as the > device configuration changes. Going into the shell has shown as many as 25 > efi block devices on systems I've seen before. We can always create a new UUID for that of course :-) Alternatively, we could use the UUID specific bits in ent_attr, (bits 48-63) to flag an UFS partition as possible root (meaning that it contains /boot and such). -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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