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Date:      Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:53:04 +0100 (BST)
From:      "Dominic Marks" <dom@helenmarks.co.uk>
To:        "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Dominic Marks <dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk>, CyberSans AirBort <cybersans@gmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bug on BTX
Message-ID:  <50017.82.69.13.6.1159293184.squirrel@mail.helenmarks.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200609261305.12224.jhb@freebsd.org>
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John Baldwin wrote:
>
> Hmm, are you willing to test a change that should fix that?  If so,
> try
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch  You'll need to
> do
> a 'make clean && make && make install' in /sys/boot after applying,
> and if
> the make install suceeeds, do a 'bsdlabel -B ad0s1' (replace ad0s1
> with the
> actual slice you boot from).  I think it should work (I think it was
> tested a
> while ago, but boot2 used to not fit, now it does though).  Be warned
> though
> that if it doesn't work, you won't be able to boot from your disk.  If
> that
> happens and you have a 6.x disc 1 lying around, you can boot into
> rescue mode
> and re-run 'bsdlabel' and move boot/loader.old to boot/loader on the
> root
> partition to get your system back.  Ideally you'd try this on a system
> with
> data you don't care about (i.e., it's ok to just do a reinstall if it
> is
> hosed).

Certainly. I'll try this out tomorrow and let you know how it goes. I
have a machine running -CURRENT which can be used as guinea pig.

Thanks John.
--
Dominic



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