In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Jeffrey J. Mountin" writes:
: Are you saying that da0a is (almost) functionally equivalent to da0s3a if
: slice 3 is the first FBSD slice. Thought they were for "dangerously
: dedicated" partitions.
No. That's not correct. While they are used in dangerously (a
At 11:20 AM 3/19/00 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brandon Fosdick writes:
>: I thought of that, but I didn't know what the devices w/o slice numbers
>: did. Guess I should have just tried it.
>
>Devices w/o slice numbers are the "compatibility" devices. These map
>to t
Hmm... I ran into this problem/difficulty that you may want to warn
people about. I had partitions w/ bad144 bad-sector mapping in them.
And the new ata drivers don't do that any more, so I couldn't boot the
new kernel. I had to boot the old, backup, repartition, relabel,
reinstall and then co
Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes:
> : You can have a menu come up and offer the choice between the partitions,
> : and then boot one of them if timed out.
>
> How?
There is an example of that on /usr/share/examples/bootforth. There are
two examples
These old days must predate my involvement in unix
I have a system with 3 bsd partitions. The first one is 4.0, the
second 3.4 stable and the third is unused. I've not been able to get
the boot0 boot loader to boot off the second partition. I've been
able to get /boot/loader to do it w/o m
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brandon Fosdick writes:
: When I did the MAKEDEV stuff I forgot to put the 'a' on the end of the device
: names. I did ad0s3 instead of ad0s3a. Doh! So when I rebooted (after changing
One can always do
mount /dev/ad0a /mnt
cd /mnt/dev
sh MAKE
Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> You can make a kernel like this:
> cd /usr/src
> make buildkernel KERNEL=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
>
> The new `buildkernel' and `installkernel' targets make use of the tools
> build by buildworld and effectively works around the bootstrap problem.
IIRC, /etc/
Warner Losh wrote:
>
> When I tried the installkernel it installed things as /YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
>
> I'll have to update things.
Well, for people who like to build multiple kernels like me, the above
works... :-)
Alas, I have kernel="/DCS" in my /boot/loader.conf.
--
Daniel C. Sobral
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kris
Kennaway writes:
: I still think we should be recommending people use 'make buildkernel' to
: build GENERIC and minimize the possibility of foot-shooting from a stupid
: config file which then gets blamed on 4.0 itself. Besides, I tried to
: rebuild my kernel f
At 12:03 PM 3/16/00 -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Also, I'd like to suggest modifying 'installkernel' to install the
>kernel it builds as /kernel, rather than as /${KERNEL} (which usually
>means /GENERIC). This bit me the first time, and even though it's harmless
>not everyone is saavy enoug
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marcel Moolenaar writes:
: Warner Losh wrote:
: > To update from 3.x to 4.0 stable
: >
: > cd /usr/src
: > make buildworld
: > cd sbin/mknod
: > make install
: >
:
: You can ma
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