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. That
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.
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? If
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
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 boot
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.g:
hiten:~/ sysctl
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.g:
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
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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, and it's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:10:59AM +0100) wrote:
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Hello gang. Nothing big, but important...
Can someone tell me if the
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 initialization of
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