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To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:43:16 GMT."
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:55:46 +0100
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.53.0311172035410.92260@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net>, "Bjo
ern A. Zeeb" writes:
>Hi,
>
>I am pxebooting an md_image as root fs. While this worked for cvsup
>sources from around 20031115-1501 UTC it fails woth same kernel config
>with sources from today 20031117-1435 UTC.

>The problem seems to be triggered by following commit:
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/geom/geom_subr.c.diff?r1=1.61&r2=1.62&sortby=date&f=h

That commit adds the message and avoids walking off the end of dead
a pointer.

Where the dead pointer comes from is what has yet to be discovered.

Do you have an atapi-cd drive in this machine ?

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