From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 30 02:41:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9547616A4CE for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:41:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9DBE43D62 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:41:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.2.73] (cpe.125.wat.v126.packetworks.net [64.235.97.125] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6U2moQB021409 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:48:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <4109B4EF.605@samsco.org> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:39:43 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040702 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Current List X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.2.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=3.8 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on pooker.samsco.org Subject: HEADS UP! boot2 problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 02:41:51 -0000 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