From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 22 13:21:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA03824 for current-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:21:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA03805 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:21:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA18134 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:21:09 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA04566 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:21:09 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id VAA05192 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 21:57:58 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607221957.VAA05192@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bootstrap To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 21:57:57 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Veggy Vinny at "Jul 21, 96 11:58:35 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Veggy Vinny wrote: > Yeah, probably... :) Does the bootstrap work on an EIDE LBA > FreeBSD slice in -current? You cannot have an ``LBA FreeBSD slice'', only a BIOS using LBA translation. I know that our new notebook is setup to use LBA mode in the BIOS and that it boots FreeBSD ok. However, my experience with IDE is rather limited, so i haven't thought about the limitations and constraints. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)