From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 27 21:02:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11747 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:02:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA11729; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:02:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id OAA21074; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 14:02:19 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36AFE9B8.688F7671@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 13:38:16 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruslan Ermilov CC: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Hackers , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ALERT: New Jordan's a.out->ELF upgrade is broken!!! References: <19990127200951.A19404@ucb.crimea.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > Jordan! > > As I wrote to you, your new upgrade is broken for 2.2.X systems. > > 1. It will not install new boot blocks (see message below). > 2. It will not build ELF kernel with ELF config and ELF tools > on a running 2.2.X. (Am I right)? > 3. It gives no chance to revert, because it installs ELF world > before new boot blocks and new kernel get installed. ELF world can be run with a.out kernel. In fact, that was the state of affairs for quite a while, only changed about two weeks ago. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from it, you haven't gotten market rate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message