From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Nov 8 17:14:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c1870039.telekabel.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F036B15374; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 17:14:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id CAA35017; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 02:20:37 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <382775A9.332E96A8@nisser.com> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 02:15:21 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk References: <199911062057.MAA07266@dingo.cdrom.com> <3825A36E.5920209D@nisser.com> <382682AE.86B03706@newsguy.com> <3826DD4C.9BD9E93@nisser.com> <3826EBF5.6FD7794D@newsguy.com> <3826EEF6.4F676BCD@nisser.com> <19991108170146.B47320@relay.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > > When you are mis-calling the partition on a drive you didn't boot from, > "root". Touche Roelof PS glad to be able to report the box is up and running. With the raw geometry no less. Probably indeed some bug in the BIOS that prevented it to work correctly with any other geometry. Two slices fixed all. -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message