> On Wednesday 08 October 2008 06:15:15 am Fernan Aguero wrote: > > > Did anyone who can trigger the data corruption has tried John's patch > > > and let us know if it worked? > > > > Not yet. My problem is that it's not that easy ... (at least > > for me, but maybe I'm missing something). > > > > The main issue for me is that I don't have a spare box > > running 7.x. All my FreeBSD boxes are running 6.x > > > > I've tried to make a new 7.1-BETA bootable ISO from the > > patched sources (make release), but failed ... this is the > > first time I've ever attempted this, and it seems that you > > cannot do that from a 6.x box (I have a full CVS mirror of > > FreeBSD, and a fresh checkout of RELENG_7).
> You can just grab the existing iso, OK > untar it into a directory, OK > build your own GENERIC kernel and replace the > /boot/kernel/kernel in the iso tree, Will I be able to do this using a 7.x checkout on a 6.x box? > then use mkisofs to build a new ISO. Just be sure that > once you've installed the box, you copy the updated kernel > onto the box somehow before you reboot from the installer > (you can use the fixit shell to help with this). Gotcha. > -- > John Baldwin Fernan _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
