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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-01-30 22:11:46 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-01-30 22:11:46 +0000
commit55674a8c07d0f149598e3ca2bee53f898c360c84 (patch)
treec309ee5e6668a2b17665cdc35beeca1eaf829814 /release
parentbfc5ef6dc9ca7d2b2fd1d2ad13348d4a435dd77d (diff)
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New release notes: alpha boot, i386 boot1/boot -> boot, disklabel(8)
-N/-W gone, disklabel is MD, disklabel -s gone.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml21
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml21
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 82f3683..0238171 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -120,6 +120,17 @@
<sect3>
<title>Bootloader Changes</title>
+ <para arch="alpha">The alpha boot loader
+ (<filename>boot1</filename>) can now be called
+ <filename>boot</filename> for consistency with other
+ platforms.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386">The two parts of the i386 boot loader
+ (<filename>boot1</filename> and <filename>boot2</filename>)
+ have been combined into a single <filename>boot</filename>
+ file, to simplify programs that need to write or otherwise
+ manipulate the boot loader.</para>
+
<para arch="pc98">The PC98 bootloader now has support for
booting from SCSI MO media. &merged;</para>
@@ -183,6 +194,16 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
+ <para>The <option>-N</option> and <option>-W</option> flags to
+ &man.disklabel.8; have been retired.</para>
+
+ <para>&man.disklabel.8; is now only built for architectures where
+ it is useful (i386, pc98, alpha, and ia64).</para>
+
+ <para>The <option>-s</option> to &man.disklabel.8; has been
+ removed because the i386 boot loader now resides in a single
+ file.</para>
+
<para>&man.dump.8; now supports caching of disk blocks with the
<option>-C</option> option. This can improve dump performance
at the cost of possibly missing filesystem updates that occur
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index 82f3683..0238171 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -120,6 +120,17 @@
<sect3>
<title>Bootloader Changes</title>
+ <para arch="alpha">The alpha boot loader
+ (<filename>boot1</filename>) can now be called
+ <filename>boot</filename> for consistency with other
+ platforms.</para>
+
+ <para arch="i386">The two parts of the i386 boot loader
+ (<filename>boot1</filename> and <filename>boot2</filename>)
+ have been combined into a single <filename>boot</filename>
+ file, to simplify programs that need to write or otherwise
+ manipulate the boot loader.</para>
+
<para arch="pc98">The PC98 bootloader now has support for
booting from SCSI MO media. &merged;</para>
@@ -183,6 +194,16 @@
<sect2 id="userland">
<title>Userland Changes</title>
+ <para>The <option>-N</option> and <option>-W</option> flags to
+ &man.disklabel.8; have been retired.</para>
+
+ <para>&man.disklabel.8; is now only built for architectures where
+ it is useful (i386, pc98, alpha, and ia64).</para>
+
+ <para>The <option>-s</option> to &man.disklabel.8; has been
+ removed because the i386 boot loader now resides in a single
+ file.</para>
+
<para>&man.dump.8; now supports caching of disk blocks with the
<option>-C</option> option. This can improve dump performance
at the cost of possibly missing filesystem updates that occur
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