From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 26 15:31:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-176-145.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B44137B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:31:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9QMZMh01530; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:35:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200010262235.e9QMZMh01530@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Doug Rabson Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/common main.c src/sys/boot/al In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:23:40 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:35:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Now that I think about it, its obvious that this is caused by Matt's > change to the load address of /boot/loader which in retrospect was a bad > move since it hoses people who do a 'make world' without > relabelling. Actually we should probably back that out since potentially > many people could lose with that one in a way which is difficult to fix > without a full reinstall. Forgive the silly question, but is there any reason that boot1 doesn't read the load address from the loader object? -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message