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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile
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I think whistle just lost their upgrade path..
they were loading the loader with the old a.out bootblocks
(4.x based)
assuming nothing changed between then and now it should have worked for
them..


On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Peter Wemm wrote:

> peter       2001/08/21 22:29:25 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile 
>   Log:
>   Generate an ELF /boot/loader instead of fake a.out.  The fake a.out wrapper
>   did not work with old a.out-only bootblocks anyway. :-(
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.51      +2 -2      src/sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile
> 
> 


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