Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:09:31 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Thomas Valentino Crimi <tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New bootblocks Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903181108020.47099-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903160129080.47099-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Thomas Valentino Crimi wrote: > > > > > Speaking of which, it seems the new bootblocks are slightly larger (8k > > up from around 6k), could this be causing this problem: > > > > > disklabel -B -b /boot/boot1 da0 > > boot overlaps used partition a > > boot overlaps used partition b > > Warning, boot overlaps partition c, marked as FS_BOOT > > boot overlaps used partition d > > disklabel: cannot install boot program > > > > > > i.e. Am I going to have to wipe a partition to get the new bootblocks, as well? > > Ouch. It looks like I am going to have to spend some time hacking the > bootstrap again. This time, I will try to make it possible to fall back > to loader.old. I just committed a fix for the broken bootstrap. My stage1 bootblocks are still comfortably smaller than 7.5k. Do you have some strange build options when building sys/boot/alpha/boot1? -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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