Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 11:50:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! (was: cvs commit: src/sys/sys reboot.h src/sys/i386/i386 autoconf.c) Message-ID: <199803111950.LAA24155@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:11:29 EST." <19980311131129.14004@ct.picker.com>
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> With this batch of changes, can multiple FreeBSD versions now be installed > pretty effortlessly to separate slices on the same disk, or are there other > pieces out there (which depend on the 1st BSD root partition) that will need > touched first? The bootstrap needs to be taught how to parse the slice number, perhaps in an extended syntax such as xd(unit,slice,part)kernel although it would make more sense to me to switch to eg. sd0s1a:/kernel. (This isn't going to happen in the short term though; too much backwards-compatability grief.) -- \\ 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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