Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 23:48:25 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: julian@whistle.com Subject: Re: Nextboot(8) Message-ID: <199612132248.XAA19757@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961213012656.23959A-100000@current1.whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Dec 13, 96 01:41:51 am"
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As Julian Elischer wrote: > 1/ nextboot refuses to write the block if it is within a slice, so > it should not be possible to clobber important info, ... Unless other (e.g. DOS) programs think in the same way netboot thinks, and happily clobber information in the spare sectors after the MBR if they find them being outside of slices. :-) You should perhaps better try to _allocate_ a slice of its own for nextboot (start=1, length=1)? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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