Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:40:02 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re: kern/5481: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined Message-ID: <199801172240.OAA28961@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/5481; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/5481: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 15:38:53 -0700 > >Number: 5481 > >Category: kern > >Synopsis: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined > >Confidential: no > >Severity: non-critical > >Priority: low > >Responsible: freebsd-bugs > >State: open > >Class: sw-bug > >Submitter-Id: current-users > >Arrival-Date: Sun Jan 11 15:10:01 PST 1998 > >Last-Modified: > >Originator: David O'Brien > >Organization: > The FreeBSD Project > >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386 > >Environment: > > FBSD boot disk is sd0, but I have wd0 and wd1's installed. > > >Description: > > if you uncomment the definition for BOOT_HD_BIAS in > sys/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/Makefile and then make, you get > > dd if=boot.nohdr of=boot2 bs=512 skip=1 > 14+1 records in > 14+1 records out > 7200 bytes transferred in 0.001314 secs (5479269 bytes/sec) > boot2 is too big > *** Error code 2 > > Obvisouly this isn't so serious now that we have /boot.config, > but I liked hard coding this into the boot blocks so I don't have > to worry about the existance of this file. What I did recently was remove -DDO_BAD144 in the Makfile, which made it fit fine. I'd almost argue that DO_BAD144 should be remove completely, since I don't know of anyone *installing* FreeBSD on hard-drives this old anymore. Nate
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