Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:44:31 +0100 (BST) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recent sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c commit Message-ID: <20080712193720.V2347@ury.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080712164032.GA25769@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <20080712164032.GA25769@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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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
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