On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, David O'Brien wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 07:47:06PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > It still can't even mount root for my configurations. This is because > > it breaks compatibility by dropping support for the devices on the > > first FreeBSD slice being named without a slice number (e.g., ad0a is > > named ad0a, not ad0s<machine-dependent slice number>a). > > Also SCSI CDROM's are now only mountable as /dev/cd0, not /dev/cd0a as > before. I wonder how many others got hit by that.
PHK, please add back the old BSD partition types. Too many of my utilities and scripts depend on them. It's a very useful idiom to address the first FreeBSD slice on a disk. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
