Date: Mon, 01 Jun 1998 00:43:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, graphix@iastate.edu, mcdougall@ameritech.net Subject: Re: kernel config Message-ID: <199806010743.AAA16099@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jun 1998 14:50:54 %2B1000." <199806010450.OAA07373@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >Support for reading this data from flat areas of the disk is no longer > >part of the bootstrap. I don't think that there are very many cases > > It never was supported for biosboot, cdboot, dosboot or netboot, but > is automatically supported by rawboot. Understood (now I think about it). > >where this is likely to be in use (I seem to recall it required a > >special bootblock compilation option). If there is a strong case for > >requiring this signature, though, I have no objections. > > A signature is required to avoid parsing garbage from bootblocks that > don't support the config area. Indeed, courtesy of the stupid place that it's put. 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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