HEADS UP! boot2 problems
Alexander Kabaev
kan at freebsd.org
Fri Jul 30 08:21:34 PDT 2004
On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 08:39:43PM -0600, Scott Long wrote:
> All,
>
> The GCC 3.4 import seems to have broken the boot2 loader on at least
> i386. This doesn't affect normal world and kernel builds and installs,
> but does affect writing new bootblocks via the disklabel program. You
> should refrain from doing this until it gets fixed. It's being looked
> into right now.
>
> Scott
Commit below made boot2 usable again.
kan 2004-07-30 04:27:20 UTC
FreeBSD src repository
Modified files:
sys/boot/i386/boot2 Makefile
Log:
Compile boot2 with -fno-unit-at-a-time. GCCs aggressive optimization
breaks boot in spectacular ways otherwise.
Revision Changes Path
1.56 +3 -1 src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/Makefile
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