From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 9 17:46:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5F3037B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 17:46:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D93F43E5E for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 17:46:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from iedowse@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 10 Aug 2002 01:46:30 +0100 (BST) To: Kevin Oberman Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot0cfg and fdisk will not write an mbr to boot past cyl. 1023 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Aug 2002 14:16:08 PDT." <20020809211608.54A3A5D04@ptavv.es.net> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 01:46:29 +0100 From: Ian Dowse Message-ID: <200208100146.aa19136@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20020809211608.54A3A5D04@ptavv.es.net>, Kevin Oberman writes: >I have confirmed that fdisk under sysinstall(8) writes a boot block >that will work for booting from slices that begin past cylinder >1023. boot0cfg(8) and fdisk(8) write an MBR that is unable to boot >from a slice that starts above 1023. Did you try "boot0cfg -o packet"? From boot0cfg(8): packet Use the disk packet (BIOS Int 0x13 extensions) interface, as as opposed to the legacy (CHS) interface, when doing disk I/O. This allows booting above cylinder 1023, but requires specific BIOS support. The default is `nopacket'. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message