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tls 698fb43463 Remove option COMPAT_386BSD_MBRPART from default kernels. NetBSD has
not used partition ID 0x165 for many, many years, and the presence of
this option in INSTALL kernels can cause overwriting of existing FreeBSD
installations when sysinst writes back the disklabel.  Those with very,
very old NetBSD installations may find that they must update their fdisk
partition tables to use partition ID 0x169 for their NetBSD partitions.

This seems like the best of a number of lousy choices for dealing with
this problem.  Sysinst should perhaps grow code that asks whether an
existing 0x165 partition should be converted.

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2007-01-24 19:46:25 +00:00

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LIST OF CHANGES FROM LAST RELEASE: <$Revision: 1.783 $>
[Note: This file does not mention every change made to the NetBSD source tree.
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Changes from NetBSD 4.0 to NetBSD 5.0:
evbppc: add support for Xilinx Virtex II-Pro/4-FX. [freza 20061202]
mac68k: add support for four more Nubus video cards, including the
VillageTronic MacPicasso 340. [hauke 20061206]
shark: add support for igsfb at ofbus. [macallan 20061207]
ixp425: add support for NPE Ethernet. [scw 20061210]
shark: add support for XFree86 with wsfb. [macallan 20061220]
postfix(1): Updated to 2.3.5. [rpaulo 20061220]
nfs: Remove NQNFS support from kernel. [yamt 20061227]
zaurus: add support for Sharp C3x00 PDA. [ober 20070105]
i386: add support for Microsoft Xbox. [jmcneill 20070105]
ntp: Import ntp 4.2.4 (20061228). Tracking of network interface address
changes is now supported - no more ntpd restarts when interface
addresses are re-configured (WLAN/DSL/ppp/...). [kardel 20070106]
ug(4): driver for the Abit uGuru hardware system monitor,
contributed by Mihai Chelaru. [xtraeme 20070106]
kernel: global 'securelevel' variable removed; it is now internal to
the secmodel. [elad 20070110]
GCC: Updated to version 4.1.2-20070110. [mrg 20070111]
acpitools: added from FreeBSD via fvdl [christos 20070114]
scsictl(8): added setspeed command, to set the highest speed that the
optical drive should use for reading data,
contributed by Kimura Fuyuki. [bouyer 20070122]
i386, amd64: remove option COMPAT_386BSD_MBRPART from default
kernels. NetBSD has not used partition ID 0x165 for many,
many years, and the presence of this option in INSTALL
kernels can cause overwriting of existing FreeBSD
installations when sysinst writes back the disklabel.
Those with very, very old NetBSD installations may find
that they must update their fdisk partition tables to use
partition ID 0x169 for their NetBSD partitions.