Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 02:09:48 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *HEADS UP* Correction to previous postings. Message-ID: <199803101009.CAA18541@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:22:10 %2B0100." <19980310102210.18093@follo.net>
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> On Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 12:49:02AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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. > > Would the new bootblocks work with the previous kernels? (Otherwise, > it sounds really terrifying.) Yeah, old kernels ignore the slice number completely. But what we need is something that works universally, without requiring a bootblock upgrade. Yes, upgrading the bootblock is the "right" thing to do, but it would make for a really scary change, sort of like I was trying hard to avoid. We're going to be looking at a bootblock upgrade for 3.0 anyway. -- \\ 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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