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 -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message