From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 27 2:40:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25EF37B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 02:40:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 13p60K-000ASx-0A for alpha@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:40:53 +0000 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA64536 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:45:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 10:44:49 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: HEADS UP: Loader changes Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have just backed out revision 1.7 of src/sys/boot/alpha/Makefile.inc which moved the load address of /boot/loader. The reason for backing it out is that it was too easy for someone to break their system by installing a new world without upgrading their primary bootstrap using disklabel. Unfortunately, this backout similarly affects the (hopefully smaller) group of people who have upgraded since 2000/09/18. Please make sure that after your next installworld, you carefully re-label your disk using something like: # disklabel -B /dev/da0c -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message