Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 02:01:47 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble booting from WinNT with new boot loader Message-ID: <369396FB.E46D454@newsguy.com> References: <199901061502.RAA00693@ceia.nordier.com>
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Robert Nordier wrote: > > The "new boot blocks" tutorial limits itself to the "boot blocks": > that is, the hidden first and second stages of the bootstrap which > are written to the disk by disklabel(8). > > The /boot/loader program really falls into a separate category; > and I can't speak with any authority on /boot/boot.conf settings > as I've never worked on those parts of the code. But... but... this seems to be fault of the first two stages! :-) Since we don't know how the disk types, we don't have any way of know what is the first SCSI. Because of this, one has to put: set num_ide_disks=N in the /boot/boot.conf (soon to be boot.rc). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com "Heart like a Gabriel, pure and white as ivory, soul like a lucifer, black and cold as a piece of lead." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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