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Re: installboot is broken



On 03/24/2013 03:36 PM, Martin Husemann wrote:
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 09:21:39AM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
I didn't have old enough disklabel sources around, will check there.
It looks to me that installboot does exactly what disklabel -B did after
this commit:

revision 1.17
date: 1995/04/23 19:27:59;  author: ragge;  state: Exp;  lines: +3 -3
Changed to use only one bootblock file on VAX.

to sbin/disklabel/Makefile.
Vax only have one bootblock which is installed in the first 16 sectors on the disk.
The boot block is the same for all different disk types. Which is nice :-)

-- Ragge


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