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Date:      Mon, 11 May 2009 09:40:31 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: nanobsd boot slice selection does not work
Message-ID:  <200905110940.31187.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090505144938.GA87033@psconsult.nl>
References:  <200904201535.21191.nick@van-laarhoven.org> <4b925570b9c69698b6eb029454ed29fa@mteege.de> <20090505144938.GA87033@psconsult.nl>

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On Tuesday 05 May 2009 10:49:38 am Paul Schenkeveld wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:55:23PM +0200, Matthias Teege wrote:
> > Moin,
> > 
> > > I've seen this problem as well, but can't for the life of me remember 
what I 
> > 
> > I'm relieved to hear that.
> 
> Ok, a bit late (interrupt storm generated by device $WORK) but I just
> tested with a clean 7.2-RELEASE source tree.  I too can report this
> regression in boot0 which now looks at the active flag in a MBR table
> entry instead of its own default partition byte when not choosing the
> partition by pressing 1 or 2 at the prompt.  This is a regression.
> 
> The boot0 source code appears to have had a complete overhaul between
> 7.1 and 7.2.
> 
> As a workaround, use the 7.1 boot0 source (or even use 7.1 completely
> if you care about the anticipated eol of the release).
> 
> I hope Luigi will have some time to look at the default drive delection
> algorithm again zome time soon.

I think you can simply re-enable the 'update' flag using boot0cfg in 7.2 to 
fix this?

-- 
John Baldwin



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