Re: Recent sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c commit

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:

Can someone shed some light on the below commit, particularly if it's
responsible for fixing what some users have reported with boot2/loader:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-June/043363.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-June/024856.html

From the look of it, this is a change to the code that parses the
"0(ad0,a)/boot/loader" strings, from a glance at the code I suspect that before this change, it was not possible to boot off the last possible partition (which I think is 4, but I could be wrong). So installs on ad3 would not be bootable.

In short, I don't think many people will have been seeing this issue.

Gavin
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