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Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Subject: Re: System borked:  loader stack overflow.
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Andrew Thompson wrote:
> Also an entry in UPDATING that a config error that was once harmless now
> renders the system unbootable (without intervention).

Would this also be something that mergemaster could check for and warn
against?

Jim