From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 6 09:02:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA06804 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:02:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA06798 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 09:02:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id CAA03395; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 02:01:59 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <369396FB.E46D454@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 02:01:47 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Nordier , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble booting from WinNT with new boot loader References: <199901061502.RAA00693@ceia.nordier.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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