Date: Sun, 8 Mar 1998 16:32:10 +0100 (CET) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys reboot.h src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c Message-ID: <199803081532.QAA06008@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <199803081518.HAA10644@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Mar 8, 98 07:18:50 am"
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According to Mike Smith: > If your boot disk is sliced (has a partition table), and you have not > upgraded /sbin/mount to the most recent version preceeding this change, > you will have problems booting. > > This change means that if your current /etc/fstab looks like this: > > /dev/xd0a / ufs ... > /dev/xd0s2e /usr ufs ... > > you need to update it to look like: > > /dev/xd0s2a / ufs ... > /dev/xd0s2e /usr ufs ... Er... Excuse me for the maybe silly question, but WHY is this done? I mean... I run my disk split up between FreeBSD and Win95, and so there's really no ambigiousness. There's just one UFS slice. So not having to deal with the cumbersomeness of the "sX" part is nicer, and I went the other way, for shorter names: /dev/xd0a / ufs ... /dev/xd0e /usr ufs ... Also, on my other machine I have a SCSI disk for freebsd, and a IDE disk for Win95. Computer boots from the ide, and then I use booteasy there to boot from the SCSI disk. The SCSI disk is not "dangerously dedicated", but it's just one big BSD slice. So... will I need "sd0s1a" on that, or just "sd0a"? /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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