Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:50:54 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, graphix@iastate.edu, mcdougall@ameritech.net Subject: Re: kernel config Message-ID: <199806010450.OAA07373@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Support for reading this data from flat areas of the disk is no longer >part of the bootstrap. I don't think that there are very many cases It never was supported for biosboot, cdboot, dosboot or netboot, but is automatically supported by rawboot. >where this is likely to be in use (I seem to recall it required a >special bootblock compilation option). If there is a strong case for >requiring this signature, though, I have no objections. A signature is required to avoid parsing garbage from bootblocks that don't support the config area. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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