From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Apr 13 13:33:19 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA26124 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 13:33:19 -0700 Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [198.145.125.110]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA26114 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 1995 13:33:16 -0700 Received: by main.statsci.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #9) id m0rzVZd-000r3wC; Thu, 13 Apr 95 13:33 PDT Message-Id: To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 80387 hangs system at divide by zero In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Apr 1995 22:20:03 +0200." <199504132020.WAA14843@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-to: scott@statsci.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 13:34:17 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > The image is kept small enough to fit on a 1.2 MB disk, but it can be > placed as well on a 1.44 MB disk -- this way, we satisfy both camps. That's what I figured - I know I've heard that said of both FreeBSD & Linux boot disks. Just wondering if it is possible for the boot disc to be created in such a way as to make it not _always_ work on 1.44Mb drives. I don't know the structure of the bytes on the disc, so I even tried this (from Linux): dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0 before rawrite-ing the disc to make sure there was no stray garbage laying around (a naive-i-don't-know-how-it-works kind of thing to do). No difference in bootability of the disc. Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc. 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org