From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 27 6:44:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404DC37B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 06:44:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA13030; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:44:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e9RDieQ70428; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:44:40 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 09:44:40 -0400 (EDT) To: Doug Rabson Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Loader changes In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14841.34229.149395.756238@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Rabson writes: > 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 > I think the window of time where the loader actually worked after the load address was moved was fairly small, so hopefully not many people will be affected. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message