From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 2 13:32:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA11775 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:32:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemsgw.med.ge.com (gemsgw.med.ge.com [192.88.230.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA11755 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:31:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from gemed.med.ge.com (gemed.med.ge.com [3.7.12.4]) by gemsgw.med.ge.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA04135; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:30:24 -0600 Received: from sol.sol.med.ge.com (sol-gw [3.28.124.2]) by gemed.med.ge.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA12492; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 15:31:06 -0600 Received: from merak.med.ge.com by sol.sol.med.ge.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24653; Tue, 2 Jan 96 15:32:20 CST From: laufen@sol.med.ge.com (Derek Laufenberg x7-4534) Received: by merak.med.ge.com (4.1/client-1.3) id AA28357; Tue, 2 Jan 96 15:32:19 CST Date: Tue, 2 Jan 96 15:32:19 CST Message-Id: <9601022132.AA28357@merak.med.ge.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Subject: Re: HELP!!! THIS IS AN EMERGENCY (fwd) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > Oi! Anyone out there with a non-LBA PC with an IDE disk bigger than 500M, > > using something other than Disk Manager, speak up! We need info from you > > about it! > > 300 Megs of DOS, rest for FreeBSD NFS client. > > Somehow, I don't think you had this kind of response in mind :) I haven't been following this thread, but this caught my eye. Sorry if I'm missing the whole topic. On one of my systems, I have an WDC 850M disk which I use for both DOS and FreeBSD. I also use the "On Track" disk manager which came with the disk when I got it. Here is how it is partitioned out: 100M DOS - C 120M FreeBSD 630M DOS - D LBA is turned OFF in bios and on Promise 2300+ IDE card I use OSBS as the boot selector. The "On Track" is installed in the boot sector of the disk (I think) and it makes it look like the disk has sectors before sector 0 (negitive sectors) which contains the Ontrack code. Now the boot sector, where OSBS/Booteasy lives is moved up a little way on the disk, but still seems to be at sector 0 or where ever it lives. When I boot FreeBSD I see the following: BIOS memory and disk checks ON Track banner OSBS Boot Screen When I select FreeBSD it boots and runs fine. I assume the ON TRACK code is still being used for the IDE interface, but this doenst seem to be a problem. This system gets most of its real stuff over NFS so a small disk was used. I was careful to get both Boot partitions under the 500M limit. The DOS-D disk works fine. I have all my windows (waiting for wine to be real) applications there. I haven't tried win95 yet. I hope this helps. I hope it was somewhat topical. Derek Laufenberg laufen@sol.med.ge.com