From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 12 18:44:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E25410656C9 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:44:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw2.york.ac.uk (mail-gw2.york.ac.uk [144.32.128.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FF138FC25 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:44:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from mail-gw7.york.ac.uk (mail-gw7.york.ac.uk [144.32.129.30]) by mail-gw2.york.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m6CIiVMC007770; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:44:31 +0100 (BST) Received: from ury.york.ac.uk ([144.32.108.81]) by mail-gw7.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KHk59-0006Fy-Me; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:44:31 +0100 Received: from ury.york.ac.uk (localhost.york.ac.uk [127.0.0.1]) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m6CIiVKi053651; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:44:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) Received: from localhost (gavin@localhost) by ury.york.ac.uk (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) with ESMTP id m6CIiVlg053648; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:44:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: ury.york.ac.uk: gavin owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:44:31 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson X-X-Sender: gavin@ury.york.ac.uk To: Jeremy Chadwick In-Reply-To: <20080712164032.GA25769@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Message-ID: <20080712193720.V2347@ury.york.ac.uk> References: <20080712164032.GA25769@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-York-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-York-MailScanner-From: gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c commit 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: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:44:35 -0000 On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Can someone shed some light on the below commit, particularly if it's > responsible for fixing what some users have reported with boot2/loader: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-June/043363.html > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-June/024856.html >From the look of it, this is a change to the code that parses the "0(ad0,a)/boot/loader" strings, from a glance at the code I suspect that before this change, it was not possible to boot off the last possible partition (which I think is 4, but I could be wrong). So installs on ad3 would not be bootable. In short, I don't think many people will have been seeing this issue. Gavin