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Date:      Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:50:38 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: bootstrap
Message-ID:  <199607222050.WAA06528@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960722130825.11997n-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> from Veggy Vinny at "Jul 22, 96 01:11:02 pm"

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As Veggy Vinny wrote:

> 	Just tried it as disklabel -B wd0 but no luck... I'm using a 
> Western Digital WDAC31600 Caviar EIDE HD in LBA mode under -current and 
> in the Booteasy menu, when I hit F2 for FreeBSD, it just redisplays the 
> Booteasy menu again in a loop.....  Is there a way I can fix this?

By using a Real Disk.

No, sorry, i don't have a clue about the implications of using LBA
mode.  I decided to not bother with this half-designed approach, and
to ignore IDE for the rest of my life except for some situations like
notebooks.

You certainly either have to get a really good picture about who uses
which figures (BIOS, BSD, other systems on the same disk), or you have
to teach the wdc driver about LBA addressing.  Pick your more favorite
choice. :-]

(Btw., this wasn't a question of the BSD bootstrap from the beginning,
that's why disklabel -B didn't change the behaviour.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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