Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 15:29:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: dcs@newsguy.com, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to add a new bootdevice to the new boot code ??? Message-ID: <199903212329.PAA01548@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:29:48 %2B1100." <199903212229.JAA27264@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >Correct. I was looking for a field in the disklabel that I could spam > >with a suitable number based on the time from the RTC, and I'd then > > There isn't one. Especially when there is no disklabel or a read-only > disklabel. > > >> Again, same objections... :-) > > > >Same solutions. Plus we'd be likely to place some metadata somewhere > >on a FAT filesystem, so it'd be trivial to put such a field there. > > Similar objections. Disks should be write protected to inhibit spam :-). I'm happy to entertain any alternate solutions. > I pass "foo" from 1:foo(2s1a)kernel in my version of the old boot blocks. And you determine "foo" how? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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