From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 26 17:53:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BD0E16A412; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:53:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dom@helenmarks.co.uk) Received: from mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk (mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk [81.19.179.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9248F43D7C; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:53:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dom@helenmarks.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACCF411477; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:53:07 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk Received: from mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id X8amIS1vzvsv; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:53:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk (unknown [192.168.100.1]) by mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D9C011466; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:53:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35EC817766; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:53:06 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at helenmarks.co.uk Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.helenmarks.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 8CfcswZDDMly; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:53:05 +0100 (BST) Received: by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 80) id EC7CD17754; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:53:04 +0100 (BST) Received: from 82-69-13-6.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk ([82.69.13.6]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user dom) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk with HTTP; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:53:04 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <50017.82.69.13.6.1159293184.squirrel@mail.helenmarks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200609261305.12224.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <15af975d0609212321r29fdd287p462ae0f2b7e404b4@mail.gmail.com> <15af975d0609220725s1206d7ebr53589adbc1b9c17@mail.gmail.com> <4513F5B0.9030300@goodforbusiness.co.uk> <200609261305.12224.jhb@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 18:53:04 +0100 (BST) From: "Dominic Marks" To: "John Baldwin" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: Dominic Marks , CyberSans AirBort , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug on BTX X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:53:12 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: > > Hmm, are you willing to test a change that should fix that? If so, > try > http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch You'll need to > do > a 'make clean && make && make install' in /sys/boot after applying, > and if > the make install suceeeds, do a 'bsdlabel -B ad0s1' (replace ad0s1 > with the > actual slice you boot from). I think it should work (I think it was > tested a > while ago, but boot2 used to not fit, now it does though). Be warned > though > that if it doesn't work, you won't be able to boot from your disk. If > that > happens and you have a 6.x disc 1 lying around, you can boot into > rescue mode > and re-run 'bsdlabel' and move boot/loader.old to boot/loader on the > root > partition to get your system back. Ideally you'd try this on a system > with > data you don't care about (i.e., it's ok to just do a reinstall if it > is > hosed). Certainly. I'll try this out tomorrow and let you know how it goes. I have a machine running -CURRENT which can be used as guinea pig. Thanks John. -- Dominic