From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 4 3: 7:24 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 03:07:21 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F3A037B400 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 03:07:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (v-ger [158.227.6.179]) by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB4B7Ir20604; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:07:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eB4B6vF01585; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:06:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Sender: jose@we.lc.ehu.es Message-ID: <3A2B7AD1.4F84B006@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 12:06:57 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: es-ES, es, en-US, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Nordier Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The trouble with boot0 References: <200012011457.eB1EvDQ00734@nordier.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Nordier wrote: > > Can you try the -current version of boot0? You can pick up both > source and binary files at > > http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/download/boot0-latest.tar.gz > It works, indeed. The conclusion is clear: CHS mode does not work because of a geometry problem (there is not a formatted DOS partition on the HD). Packet mode does work, however. I was shot by 4.2-RELEASE's boot0 -- and by the *damn* geometry problem of IDE disks, of course. BTW, I found another problem with -CURRENT's boot0: the "noupdate" option does not work as expected. If "noupdate" is set, then boot0 *only* boots the slice marked as active in the partition table, regardless of the F? choice or even the default F? (which is correctly shown). Perhaps I am abusing of your patience, but I have another question ;-) The BIOS setup of the problem machine offers four choices for the HD mode: AUTO, NORMAL, LBA and LARGE. The NORMAL and LBA modes work with the packet mode of boot0; however, LARGE does not work, and this is the mode selected by the BIOS if I put the HD in AUTO mode. I am simply asking for an explanation of this behavior, or a pointer to any document about this subject. Could you help me? Thanks a lot, -- JMA ****** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ****** ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message