On Sat, 8 Mar 2014, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > I follow "-current" for several years but recently a thing puzzles me.
> >
> > My "x200" is a dual-boot system ("Seven"/OpenBSD "-current") and since (I
> > think) the "amd64/i386 installboot" change, each time I upgrade via
> > "bsd.rd", I have to generate a new "openbsd.pbr" and copy it to "Seven".
> >
> > If I miss that, I get an "ERR M" and can't go further.
> >
> > First I was thinking about changes but I checked code and last
> > modification on boot(8) was made 2 weeks ago (I did 2 updates since it).
> >
> > I used that setup for several years without any need to do that, what do
> > I miss here, is it now normal ?
>
> The old installboot would reuse the same file, very carefully.
To be clear, the old amd64/i386 installboot never updated /boot - it only ever
patched biosboot and installed it into the PBR. It was entirely up to the
user (or the install script) to copy /usr/mdec/boot file to /boot - if you
used cp or cat the old PBR may have continued to work, but there was no
guarantee.
> Joel's new installboot does not do that, and chooses to be careful
> about handling a different problem instead.
>
> Can't easily solve both problems. I think he should revert to the
> old method.
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