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New release notes: alpha boot, i386 boot1/boot -> boot, disklabel(8)

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-N/-W gone, disklabel is MD, disklabel -s gone.
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Bruce A. Mah 2003-01-30 22:11:46 +00:00
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<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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<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