From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 22 07:50:24 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id HAA28614 for current-outgoing; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 07:50:24 -0700 Received: from Wit401402.student.utwente.nl (Wit401402.student.utwente.nl [130.89.236.162]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA28605 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 07:50:16 -0700 Received: (from alain@localhost) by Wit401402.student.utwente.nl (8.6.12/8.6.9) id QAA25914; Tue, 22 Aug 1995 16:48:01 +0200 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 16:48:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: Alain Kalker Reply-To: A.C.P.M.Kalker@student.utwente.nl To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Of slices and boot code.. In-Reply-To: <22246.809061857@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Would it be reasonable to assume that our current boot code will never > have a chance of dealing with the root partition via a "slice?" > > It's kind of a pity since I've gotten a lot of tech support emails > from people who were very confused that / showed up on `sd0a' while > everything else was on a slice. It makes a somewhat confusing model > (to the uninitiated) even more confusing since just when they think > they're understanding it (and, in fact, ARE) that comes along to trip > them up. Sigh. > > Jordan > Perhaps this confusion can be traced back to a probable mix-up of the terms 'partition' and 'slice' in the documentation. Both in the documentation on partitioning your disk on the installation disk (file '.../partition.hlp') and in '/usr/share/FAQ/Text/diskspace.FAQ' the terms are interchanged. The people that Jordan gets mail from might be confused by what is referred to as the "compatibility slice" in '.../partition.hlp'. The question IMHO really is then: is there a chance of _that_ going away..? -- PS: to Jordan: Could you please forward this to the documentation people? Greetings, Alain