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Date:      11 Dec 1998 08:42:55 -0000
From:      Jos Backus <Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   bin/9055: /boot/loader's ``set'' and ``load'' commands crash the bootloader.
Message-ID:  <19981211084255.64536.qmail@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com>

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>Number:         9055
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       When used without arguments, ``set'' and ``load'' will crash the bootloader.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Dec 11 00:50:00 PST 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jos Backus
>Organization:
Origin B.V.
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Environment:

	-current as of yesterday

>Description:

	Boot into the loader and type ``set''<Enter>. Boom.
	``load'' yields ``\'' as output and seems to take a random number of
	times to crash the environment.
	A BTX register dump results.

	(I can stick some debugging printf's in there if that is deemed
	useful. Looking the set code it seems weird that this happens though.)

>How-To-Repeat:

	Type ``set'' or ``load'' a few times at the loader's command prompt.

>Fix:
	
	Don't do that :-)

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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