From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 6 16:53:57 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03184 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:53:57 -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 QAA03178 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:53:56 -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 QAA01493; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:49:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901070049.QAA01493@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Julian Elischer cc: Mike Smith , 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 15:08:24 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 16:49:02 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > if the first sector passes 0x80 > then that is just fine. > the bootblocks in da0 will be run and they will pick up the changed spec > in the second block.. Except that in this case there are probably no bootblocks on da0 (swap partition, remember), and the "second block" is on da1 where the bootblocks won't be looking... -- \\ 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