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From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Subject: Re: kern/5481: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined
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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