Boot0cfg bug redux (Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598)

2011-01-10 Thread Luigi Rizzo
In order to understand the bug discussed in the recent thread (original message attached at the end), Tom Judge passed me the dump of the boot sector around the bug. The system giving trouble has the following configuration Fresh transcript: file1: ORIGINAL BOOT SECTOR # boot0cfg -v ad0

Re: Boot0cfg bug redux (Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598)

2011-01-10 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 11.01.2011 02:33, Luigi Rizzo wrote: As a consequence, if we reboot without pressing an F-key, the system boots from partition s1 even though the boot loader indicates F2. skip So, to summarize, I guess that a possible fix (that does not involve using gpart, or even worse, modifying

Re: Boot0cfg bug redux (Re: sys/boot/boot0/boot0.S - r186598)

2011-01-10 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 03:38:23AM +0300, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 11.01.2011 02:33, Luigi Rizzo wrote: As a consequence, if we reboot without pressing an F-key, the system boots from partition s1 even though the boot loader indicates F2. skip So, to summarize, I guess that a possible