From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 13 14:53:46 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA23622 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 14:53:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id OAA23617 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 14:53:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA29157; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 23:53:01 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA05037; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 23:53:00 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id XAA19757; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 23:48:25 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612132248.XAA19757@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Nextboot(8) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 23:48:25 +0100 (MET) Cc: julian@whistle.com Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Julian Elischer at "Dec 13, 96 01:41:51 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)