From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 6 12:19:36 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA02848 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:19:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-24-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA02818 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:19:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id WAA02147; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 22:18:13 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199901062018.WAA02147@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: Trouble booting from WinNT with new boot loader In-Reply-To: <369396FB.E46D454@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Jan 7, 99 02:01:47 am" To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 22:18:11 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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