Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 00:49:02 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: luoqi@watermarkgroup.com (Luoqi Chen) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *HEADS UP* Correction to previous postings. Message-ID: <199803100849.AAA18205@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 1998 03:27:32 EST." <9803100827.AA26647@watermarkgroup.com>
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> > > User actions in the 3 cases: > > > 1. Hope this doesn't happen. It is very unlikely to happen for boot disks. > > > 2. Wait for fixes. > > > 3. Same as for cases where the whole disk is not used for FreeBSD - edit > > > /etc/fstab. > > > > I would like to find a fix for 2. that doesn't involve going backwards > > to the 'bad old days', but this seems difficult just now. > > > I managed to modify boot2 so I was able to boot with -r1.87 autoconf.c > from my dedicated disk (historical invalid). My solution was to leave slice > to be WHOLE_DISK_SLICE for a BSD partition starts at sector 0 (this would > bloat boot2 by two bytes: a je rel8). I'd love to do this, but it means a mandatory bootblock upgrade. Right now, that would be Very Bad, especially for 2.2. I think I have another solution, but I'm waiting on some feeback from Bruce before I get too carried away. He didn't like my first suggestion too much. -- \\ 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
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