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On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Andrey Chernov wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 10:53:10PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>> One of them must, if you are getting this error.  Here's my machine.
>
> # boot0cfg -v ad0
> #   flag     start chs   type       end chs       offset         size
> 1   0x80      0:  1: 1   0xa5   1023:254:63           63     23053212
> 2   0x00   1023:  0: 1   0x07   1023:254:63     23053275    133307370
>
> Various partition checkers under Windows indicates no problems.
> No offset+size overlap.
>
>> FreeBSD harmony.village.org 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Thu Oct 21 07:15:53 MDT 2004     root@harmony.village.org:/u/misc/imp/obj/u/misc/imp/5x/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>
> It seems that this secret sysctl is phk's -current innovation, not in 5.3,
> but I am not sure.

FYI. This "feature" was in 5.2-CURRENT (Maybe even before) and made its 
way into RELENG_5_3. I have known about the foot-shooting.patch for at 
least 18 months.

Cheers,
Andy

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