Re: Recent sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c commit
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Can someone shed some light on the below commit, particularly if it's responsible for fixing what some users have reported with boot2/loader: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-June/043363.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-June/024856.html From the look of it, this is a change to the code that parses the "0(ad0,a)/boot/loader" strings, from a glance at the code I suspect that before this change, it was not possible to boot off the last possible partition (which I think is 4, but I could be wrong). So installs on ad3 would not be bootable. In short, I don't think many people will have been seeing this issue. Gavin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Recent sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c commit
Can someone shed some light on the below commit, particularly if it's responsible for fixing what some users have reported with boot2/loader: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-June/043363.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-June/024856.html The commit/diff is here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c.diff?r1=1.83.2.3;r2=1.83.2.4;f=h Revision 1.83.2.4: download - view: text, markup, annotated - select for diffs Fri Jul 11 15:43:07 2008 UTC (24 hours, 49 minutes ago) by nyan Branches: RELENG_7 Diff to: previous 1.83.2.3: preferred, colored; branchpoint 1.83: preferred, colored; next MAIN 1.84: preferred, colored Changes since revision 1.83.2.3: +1 -1 lines SVN rev 180449 on 2008-07-11 15:43:07Z by nyan MFC: r180145 Fix off-by-one error. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
