Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:54:10 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 bootinfo.c Message-ID: <20020105175020.J23461-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020104141340.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > On 04-Jan-02 Bruce Evans wrote: > > 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. :( The kernel knows even less :-). It uses the hard-coded list with only the cd0a, acd0a and wcd0a devices in it. Unfortunately, the environment variable is limited to a single device. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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