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Date:      Fri, 04 Jan 2002 18:35:44 -0800
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 bootinfo.c 
Message-ID:  <200201050235.g052Zij03312@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 04 Jan 2002 14:13:40 PST." <XFMail.020104141340.jhb@FreeBSD.org> 

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> > I thought that RB_CDROM was only set by the old bootblocks.  Bootblocks
> > that are less than 2 years old should set vfs.root.mountfrom to
> > <vfsname>[:<path>], and not shoot their foot off by setting deprecated
> > flags.
> 
> Well, that's a bit tricky.  In the loader, all I know is that the BIOS cd cd0
>  is
> _some_ CD device.  I don't know which device.  It could be cd4 or acd0 to the
> kernel.  I'm not sure how best to go about that. :(

<vfsname>:$volume_tag$

Or something similar.  Device names were the best I could come up with at 
the time; volume tags would be better.



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