Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 18:25:18 -0700 (PDT) From: John M Vinopal <banshee@abattoir.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sullen ESDI drive Message-ID: <199707140125.SAA08542@abattoir.com>
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Thanks to the few people who've mailed me with their suggestions on getting my ESDI drive to boot under FreeBSD; unfortunately it has come to naught, I believe because my (ancient) bios doesn't have a user defined setting and the stage 2 freebsd boot really wants to use those values. The curious part of this is that NetBSD can boot just fine on this machine. I've been comparing the boot blocks which have diverged somewhat but I'm not a good enough asm coder to discern what some of the difference might imply. Before I give up and install netbsd on this machine, is there any way I can short circuit the boot block to do what I want (boot;)? The ESDI disk uses 2 slices, one for the kernel and / such that the bad144 cylinder is below 1023. The disk is 1224/15/35, and its my belief that the machine bios has no settings for anything but x/x/17. This leads me to believe that I could hardcode the sector count and install a custom bootblock. Comments? Should I boot from a floppy which chroots? NFS boot from another unix machine on the local net? -j
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