From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 31 21:51:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA28806 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 31 May 1998 21:51:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.15.68.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA28791 for ; Sun, 31 May 1998 21:51:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@godzilla.zeta.org.au) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA07373; Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:50:54 +1000 Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 14:50:54 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199806010450.OAA07373@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: kernel config Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, graphix@iastate.edu, mcdougall@ameritech.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Support for reading this data from flat areas of the disk is no longer >part of the bootstrap. I don't think that there are very many cases It never was supported for biosboot, cdboot, dosboot or netboot, but is automatically supported by rawboot. >where this is likely to be in use (I seem to recall it required a >special bootblock compilation option). If there is a strong case for >requiring this signature, though, I have no objections. A signature is required to avoid parsing garbage from bootblocks that don't support the config area. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message