From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 26 10:35:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA11784 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 May 1998 10:35:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA11767 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 10:34:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA11178; Tue, 26 May 1998 17:34:27 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id TAA16172; Tue, 26 May 1998 19:34:25 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980526193419.65069@follo.net> Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 19:34:19 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith Subject: Re: Weird behaviour in BootEasy References: <19980525014931.03345@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Simon Shapiro on Tue, May 26, 1998 at 01:45:08PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 01:45:08PM -0400, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > 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. Not very practical; it's presently housing my homedir, my bootdrive, and most of my sources. :-( The interesting point here is that I _haven't_ re-initialized the array - I still have the original DOS slice I got from you. I've concatenated the two slices used to hold the 15 or so BSD paritions to a single slice with a boot partition, a swap partition, and a lagre 'e' partition for sources + homedir. I've run dptmgr.com (or something like that) from DOS a couple of times and re-built one disk, but I've not done anything that should have changed the basic array. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message