From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 22 14:43:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA13033 for current-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA13003 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 14:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id XAA19905 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:43:21 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA05933 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 23:43:21 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id WAA06528 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:50:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607222050.WAA06528@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bootstrap To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 22:50:38 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Veggy Vinny at "Jul 22, 96 01:11:02 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)