Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 22:18:11 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble booting from WinNT with new boot loader Message-ID: <199901062018.WAA02147@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <369396FB.E46D454@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Jan 7, 99 02:01:47 am"
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Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > 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! :-) Except when operating in "compatibility mode" (ie. like the old boot blocks), all the first two stages do is pass control to the third stage (/boot/loader). It is not a part of their intended function to analyze the hardware on /boot/loader's behalf. :) > 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). -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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