Subject: Re: scsi device configuration
To: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: proprietor - Foo Bar And Grill <jgraham@defender.VAS.viewlogic.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/05/1996 11:37:16
#define AUTHOR "mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU (der Mouse)"
/*
* >>> or the (supposed) inability of the normal kernel to mount anything
* >>> else than /dev/sd0a on /.
* >> I think "config netbsd swap generic" (you actually want "root
* >> generic", but they go together - something else that needs fixing)
* >> works now, though I'm not sure.
* > But supposedly this generic option prevents the use of a second swap
* > device.
*
* Probably; I rather doubt "swap on generic and sd1b" would work.
*
Actually, "swap generic" seems to allow configuration of any other
disk partition you might want -- just use 'swapon'. Works for me.
The problem, however, is that one should not have to hard-code swap
partitions into the kernel at any time. What if you put on a new disk?
Should you have preallocated every single partition on every single
conceivable disk as a swap partition?
I don't necessarily _want_ 'swap generic' in my kernel. I thought that
the 'config netbsd root on sd0a swap on sd0...' line was simply to init
the PRIMARY swap device, not to describe all the swap devices.
For instance, I like to nail down my root partition on that particular
kernel, but I'd like to be able to add disks at random if need be and
start swapping on them.
* A good project for some ambitious kernel hacker. :-)
Shouldn't take all that much effort.
*
* der Mouse
*
* mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
*
*/
#undef AUTHOR /* "mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU (der Mouse)" */
--*greywolf;
--
Sun hardware is great stuff. It's too bad their software has taken
such a downturn.