Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:46:11 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall disks.c Message-ID: <200101150746.f0F7kBQ00937@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <80855.979537248@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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Jordan Hubbard wrote: > Well, last time we settled the issue, the consensus was that the > feature should stop being "waved" at users (e.g. they should not be > asked) but that an obscure key sequence be added for getting at > dangerously dedicated mode. Hmm, well, that works for me too. I've got a variation that changes the 'magic' key sequence to be 'F' (all FreeBSD) that isn't on the menu (just like the '|' wizzard mode). If you press A, you get a conventional fdisk table. If you press 'F', you get asked for DD mode. > I still have a test machine here, of comparatively modern design, > which won't install *without* DD mode and I've tried quite a number of > different geometries for it without success (it's all SCSI, not IDE) > so DD mode can't go away or not be a conceivable option from > sysinstall at installation time. I'm sure I'm also not the only one > in this boat. When the libdisk code correctly divines the geometry 10 > out of 10 times and results in a working installation, that's when DD > mode should be completely and utterly killed. Until then, it's > sometimes the only way forward. Is this a bootblock or geometry issue? Under RELENG_4 the last I heard was that there was an unresolved bug with the 1K boot0.. I know of a couple of Intel motherboards that have sufficient bios breakage that it requires special tweaks, but it is nothing to do with DD mode or geometry. > - Jordan Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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