From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jan 18 05:13:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA01047 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 05:13:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA01017 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 05:13:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA23462; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 15:42:19 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA27024; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 15:42:17 -0700 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 15:42:17 -0700 Message-Id: <199801172242.PAA27024@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bruce Evans Cc: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/5481: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined In-Reply-To: <199801120400.UAA19433@hub.freebsd.org> References: <199801120400.UAA19433@hub.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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. > > You will have to worry soon when BOOT_HD_BIAS is removed :-). So, where is the example boot.config for -stable that we can use to build our custom setup? I don't even know what the format of this (now required) file, and README.serial doesn't explain it well enough to know how to setup a system so that BOOT_HD_BIAS is not required. caddis:/sys/i386/boot/biosboot % man boot.config No manual entry for boot.config Nate