In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nate Lawson wri
tes:
>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.
I'd prefer not to if we can avoid it, but I'll offer this patch
as a sort of POLA-disturbing middle-ground:
http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/cd.patch
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