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Subject: Re: HEADS UP! boot2 problems
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Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 03:21:19PM +0000, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 08:39:43PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
>>
>>>All,
>>>
>>>The GCC 3.4 import seems to have broken the boot2 loader on at least
>>>i386.  This doesn't affect normal world and kernel builds and installs,
>>>but does affect writing new bootblocks via the disklabel program.  You
>>>should refrain from doing this until it gets fixed.  It's being looked
>>>into right now.
>>>
>>>Scott
>>
>>Commit below made boot2 usable again.
> 
> 
> As suggested by Matt Dillon, the problems were caused by imcompletely
> zeroed out BSS. I merged approproate fixes from DragonflyBSD in commit
> below. Success/failure reports from people affected are appreciated.

Thanks!

Scott