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Date:      Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:45:46 +0100
From:      phk@FreeBSD.org
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 Makefile boot1.s 
Message-ID:  <55519.1039945546@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:52:15 PST." <20021215005215.2476D2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> 

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In message <20021215005215.2476D2A7EA@canning.wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/boot/i386/boot2  Makefile boot1.s 
>>   Log:
>>   Employ the unused bytes after the disklabel in the second sector.  This mak
>    es
>>   it possible to make UFS1_ONLY and UFS2_ONLY versions which fit inside the
>>   traditional 16 sectors.
>>   
>>   UFS1_AND_UFS2 still needs another 150 bytes to work, and that is probably
>>   not within our reach, ever.
>
>That sounds like a challenge! :-)
>http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/boot2.diff
>
>That is a WIP and COMPLETELY UNTESTED patch to turn on UFS1_AND_UFS2
>and it ends up with 7 bytes free.  I wouldn't install this on anything
>but a spare floppy disk yet.

I admit I used a ZIP disk, but IT WORKS for both UFS1 & UFS2!

Commit it!

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