From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 1 01:48:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA26229 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 01:48:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles157.castles.com [208.214.165.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA26224 for ; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 01:48:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA16099; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 00:43:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806010743.AAA16099@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Bruce Evans cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, graphix@iastate.edu, mcdougall@ameritech.net Subject: Re: kernel config In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jun 1998 14:50:54 +1000." <199806010450.OAA07373@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 00:43:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >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. Understood (now I think about it). > >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. Indeed, courtesy of the stupid place that it's put. 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message