bug on BTX

[Dominic Marks]

John Baldwin wrote:
>
> Hmm, are you willing to test a change that should fix that?  If so,
> try
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch  You'll need to
> do
> a 'make clean && make && make install' in /sys/boot after applying,
> and if
> the make install suceeeds, do a 'bsdlabel -B ad0s1' (replace ad0s1
> with the
> actual slice you boot from).  I think it should work (I think it was
> tested a
> while ago, but boot2 used to not fit, now it does though).  Be warned
> though
> that if it doesn't work, you won't be able to boot from your disk.  If
> that
> happens and you have a 6.x disc 1 lying around, you can boot into
> rescue mode
> and re-run 'bsdlabel' and move boot/loader.old to boot/loader on the
> root
> partition to get your system back.  Ideally you'd try this on a system
> with
> data you don't care about (i.e., it's ok to just do a reinstall if it
> is
> hosed).

Certainly. I'll try this out tomorrow and let you know how it goes. I
have a machine running -CURRENT which can be used as guinea pig.

Thanks John.
--
Dominic