Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:38:16 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> Cc: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ALERT: New Jordan's a.out->ELF upgrade is broken!!! Message-ID: <36AFE9B8.688F7671@newsguy.com> References: <19990127200951.A19404@ucb.crimea.ua>
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Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > Jordan! > > As I wrote to you, your new upgrade is broken for 2.2.X systems. > > 1. It will not install new boot blocks (see message below). > 2. It will not build ELF kernel with ELF config and ELF tools > on a running 2.2.X. (Am I right)? > 3. It gives no chance to revert, because it installs ELF world > before new boot blocks and new kernel get installed. ELF world can be run with a.out kernel. In fact, that was the state of affairs for quite a while, only changed about two weeks ago. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from it, you haven't gotten market rate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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