This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
I've added an installation from optical disk drive facility.
This enables FreeBSD to be installed from an optical disk, which
may be formatted in "super floppy" style or sliced into MSDOS-FS
and UFS partitions.
Note: ncr.c should be reviewed by Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org>
and cd.c by Joerg Wunsch <joerg@freebsd.org> before bringing this
into 2.2.
Submitted-By: Shunsuke Akiyama <akiyama@kme.mei.co.jp>
Set_Boot_Blocks(). Boy, this one had me tearing my hair out!
I hate how the loader distinguishes between `extern char *foo' and
`extern char foo[]' sometimes! :-)
- add __BEGIN_DECLS and __END_DECLS,
- add a bunch of ``const'' qualifiers all over the place,
- rename the `private' struct member into `private_data' to avoid the
clash with the C++ keyword.
discussion on -core about disk partitioning tools etc.
Add NOPIC=yes to Makefile to prevent any possibility of version mismatch
because of the potential grave consequences. (as suggested by phk)
Note that this is also on RELENG_2_1_0, since the sysinstall stuff is
hopefully going to remain in sync.
Remove bogus targets.
Allocate partition letters as follows:
lowest offset "flags & CHUNK_IS_ROOT" gets 'a',
lowest offset "subtype==FS_SWAP" gets 'b'
the rest is allocated in offset order from this sequence "defghab".
This will generally make sense.
Added rules to complain if more than one CHUNK_IS_ROOT or more than one
FS_SWAP per FreeBSD chunk.
Set CHUNK_IS_ROOT on the 'a' partition in Open_Disk.
Run Fixup_Names in Open_Disk.
Add mbr and bteasy17 to tst01
read partitions from kernel instead of disk.
Still problems with writing labels, discussing with Bruce.
Extended slices doesn't get written yet.
