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Re: netbsd on vax 11/730; booting in sim



From: Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>

> Just noticed another "step back", that I hadn't seen until now.
> 
> NetBSD moved away quite a long time ago from needing to reboot if fsck 
> needed to fix the root partition. That's something that was done back in 
> the dark ages with 4.3...
> But 5.0 have reintroduced this "feature".
> Now, I assume it was for some good reason, but I didn't know about it, 
> and as far as I could tell, it worked very nice without having to do 
> this in the last ten years or more.

That seems strange - i'm not seeing that on my (albeit non vax) 5.0 boxes...
Does it happen every time for you?


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