From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 6 13:44:30 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA12193 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 13:44:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA12188 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 13:44:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00594; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 13:40:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901062140.NAA00594@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Julian Elischer cc: Robert Nordier , Andreas Braukmann , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble booting from WinNT with new boot loader In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Jan 1999 13:09:43 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 13:40:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is exactly why at whistle we use the 2nd block of the first > disk to store this stuff. (see 'nextboot(8)') > the bootblocks on da0 load a default from da0-block1, > which specify: > da(1,........ > > I am thinking of adding code to actually make the 2nd block require to be > in it's own slice type (not 165) so that it is marked as being in-use > rather than using a 'free' block like we do now.. > > I've added a 4th slice below that shows what it would look like.... > what do you think? It wouldn't help in this situation; the NT bootloader is passing 0x80 in as the "current disk" I think, and so the first sector is all at sea. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message