From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 22 13:54:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA07223 for current-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA07217 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA25469; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:54:59 -0700 Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 13:54:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD-current users Subject: Re: bootstrap In-Reply-To: <199607221957.VAA05192@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Jul 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > 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. What I mean was that this was a new drive and I was trying to back up my old drive to the new drive and everything seems working except the new drive won't boot FreeBSD.... I put the drive in the Bios with LBA translation and then installed FreeBSD after the 540 meg DOS partition but where is the problem exactly? Vince