Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 13:45:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Subject: Re: Weird behaviour in BootEasy Message-ID: <XFMail.980526134508.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <19980525014931.03345@follo.net>
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On 24-May-98 Eivind Eklund wrote:
...
> It changes it mind. After I have pressed 'F5', it reports 1024x64x32,
> before I've pressed F5 it reports 1024x122x32. Wonder how I can stop
> this;
> the easiest is probably by making BootEasy not write out the press of
> 'F2'.
> It isn't a correct fix, though.
I am almost certain you are running on a confused array. When I built your
disks, I used dptmgr/fw0. Then I used the Geometry option in sysinstall to
arrange the disk in nice, round 1MB ``tracks''. The geometry you see comes
from the array re-build (the DPT firmware tries to squeeze as much of the
disk into BIOS=able geometry as possible. Somehow the two blocks are
present and somehow you are reading them both.
Try (if practical) to wipe the disks and run dptmgr/fw0 to create a new
array.
Simon
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Sincerely Yours,
Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
770.265.7340
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