From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 26 09:44:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01154 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 09:44:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero.simon-shapiro.org.142.69.207.in-addr.arpa [207.69.142.25] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA01092 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 09:43:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@sendero.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 18411 invoked by uid 1000); 26 May 1998 17:45:08 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980525014931.03345@follo.net> Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 13:45:08 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: Weird behaviour in BootEasy Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG 770.265.7340 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message