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Date:      Mon, 25 Jan 1999 17:56:53 -0500
From:      "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@conterra.com>
To:        "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@conterra.com>
Cc:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Tom Torrance <freebsd@tomqnx.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RELENG_3 boot panic
Message-ID:  <19990125175653.C934@dmaddox.conterra.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990125172732.A934@dmaddox.conterra.com>; from Donald J . Maddox on Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:27:32PM -0500
References:  <m104gtX-000I1gC@TomQNX.tomqnx.com> <36AC4879.A8246685@newsguy.com> <19990125172732.A934@dmaddox.conterra.com>

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On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:27:32PM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 07:33:29PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> > Tom Torrance wrote:
> > > 
> > > The last change broke the set num_ide_disks=1 which had worked, but
> > > no longer does...
> > 
> > It was broken for a few hours. Num_ide_disks should be working
> > again, for those which relied on it on the past (like you :). Though
> > I get the feeling that everyone who used num_ide_disks ended up
> > suping the broken version of loader...
> > 
> > Stay with the new mechanism, though.
> 
> Hmmm...  I had the same problem as Tom yesterday, and I never used
> num_ide_disks before.  Now it doesn't work _unless_ I use num_ide_disks.

Sorry to reply to my own message, but I just realized that I added 
root_disk_unit at the same time I added num_ide_disks, and _that_
is the one that is required now.  Before num_ide_disks was 'deprecated',
I needed neither of these.

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