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Date:      Fri, 18 Sep 1998 13:29:01 +0200
From:      Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   2.2.7 + nameblock writeback + nextboot(8)
Message-ID:  <19980918132901.44557@deepo.prosa.dk>

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I'd like to do some remote kernel testing.

I looked at nextboot(8) which mentions WRITEBACK nameblocks.

So I looked in /sys/i386/boot/biosboot, and the Makefile mentions:

# Enable code to take the default boot string from a fixed location on the
# disk.  See nextboot(8) and README.386BSD for more info.
#CFLAGS+=       -DNAMEBLOCK
#CFLAGS+=        -DNAMEBLOCK_WRITEBACK

Should _both_ be undef'ed ?

If so, then the compile gives:

[...]
dd if=boot.nohdr of=boot2 bs=512 skip=1
14+1 records in
14+1 records out
7216 bytes transferred in 0.000877 secs (8227837 bytes/sec)
boot2 is too big
*** Error code 2


... but it dumps ok with only 

CFLAGS+=        -DNAMEBLOCK_WRITEBACK

	but will it work ?


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