Re: [9fans] venti+fossil, the boot process, and 48-bit lba

[Christopher Nielsen <cnielsen@pobox.com>]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:16:28PM -0700, Christopher Nielsen wrote:
> That didn't work. It shut up 9load about the partitions, but
> venti still couldn't open the partition.
>
> Unless someone has a better idea, I'm going to proceed with
> incorporating fdisk and prep into /boot and teach boot to
> use them to sniff out the partitions.

Everything is back in working order.

However, the solution is a complete hack, specific to my
configuration, and not worth sending in patches. I'll have
a go at fixing it properly when I have the time, but that
may not be before ron has a better solution replacing 9load.
BTW, my idea of a proper solution is teaching 9load about
48-bit LBA.

I like having the configuration info on the partition. As
expected, it makes for much simpler management of the
fileserver.

Thanks to everyone that had suggestions.

--
Christopher Nielsen
"They who can give up essential liberty for temporary
safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin