From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 27 7:35:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lion.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [194.87.112.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B921015404 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:35:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bp@butya.kz) Received: from bp (helo=localhost) by lion.butya.kz with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11gUAI-0008Kq-00; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:35:02 +0700 Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 21:35:02 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov To: Andrey Simonenko Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UNILOAD v.1.2 (boot loader/manager) is ready In-Reply-To: <3816EDD9.6F1FA56C@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Andrey Simonenko wrote: > > What about incorporating this into FreeBSD's boot code ? > > FreeBSD boot code (/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0) already uses LBA > 'packet' interface and can boot system from beyond 1024 cylinder mark. Hm, I was not able to do so on the IBM's 13,5Gb drive. BIOS reports that it uses CHS mode, but boot loader was unable to reach FreeBSD partition above 1023 cylinder. Unfortunately I've had only two hours to play with new hardware and can't investigate problem now. > Here it is some lines from file README: > -14------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Q: I installed UNILOAD and it shows me empty, extended partitions. > How to make it don't show such partitions? > A: Try to use intellect regime. Press . > -15------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why not to made an 'intellect' mode as default ? It would be much less confusing :). In any way, thanks for a good program. -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message