On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> Bruce Evans (Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 06:27:26PM +1100) wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, I wrote:
> > I tested with plain -current and old boot blocks. The sysctl still reports
> > ad disks correctly.
> >
> > I don't care about the sysctl but want to keep the
sorry for the crosspost but since it originated on -current
maybe people interested in the rest of the discussion were there.
I introduced the sysctl to export some amount of information to be
used by picobsd disks to tell whether you booted from floppy or atapi disk.
In turn, this is useful (and
Simon L. Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> PicoBSD does not necessarily have awk (actually most likely doesn't
> since awk is 'big'). cut could be used instead since it much smaller :
>
> mount | grep 'on / ' | cut -f 1 -d ' '
>
> Perhaps somebody has a better way?
Does PicoBSD have sed
On 2003.02.24 01:35:02 -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> Okay. I have attached a patch which will nuke the sysctl, and replace
> it's use in picobsd's mfs_tree rc scripts with something better, but
> which still needs review. I have not tested the patch, but this patch
> should not fail, hopefully.
Pi
Bruce Evans (Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 06:27:26PM +1100) wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, I wrote:
> I tested with plain -current and old boot blocks. The sysctl still reports
> ad disks correctly.
>
> I don't care about the sysctl but want to keep the boot blocks as
> backwards compatible as possible.
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, I wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Hiten Pandya wrote:
>
> > Can someone tell me if the machdep.guessed_bootdev sysctl is helpful at
> > all? I think it's a waste, and it's pretty limited and only available
> > on the i386.
>
> It is not helpful. Someone removed the initializat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:10:59AM +0100) wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hiten Pandya writes:
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> >Hello gang. Nothing big, but important...
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> >Can someone tell me
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hiten Pandya writes:
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>Hello gang. Nothing big, but important...
>
>Can someone tell me if the machdep.guessed_bootdev sysctl is helpful at
>all? I think it's a waste, a
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> Can someone tell me if the machdep.guessed_bootdev sysctl is helpful at
> all? I think it's a waste, and it's pretty limited and only available
> on the i386.
It is not helpful. Someone removed the initialization of the kernel
variable bootdev for i386
Hiten Pandya wrote:
> Hello gang. Nothing big, but important...
>
> Can someone tell me if the machdep.guessed_bootdev sysctl is helpful at
> all? I think it's a waste, and it's pretty limited and only available
> on the i386.
>
> It currently guesses 'wd' instead of 'ad' for the dev. nodes, .e
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