Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 13:23:40 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Robert Nordier <rnordier@FreeBSD.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot0 Makefile boot0.s Message-ID: <XFMail.001002132340.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200010022015.WAA20800@c3-dbn-63.dial-up.net>
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On 02-Oct-00 Robert Nordier wrote: > Peter Wemm wrote: > >> Robert Nordier wrote: >> > rnordier 2000/10/02 10:30:22 PDT >> > >> > Modified files: >> > sys/boot/i386/boot0 Makefile boot0.s >> > Log: >> > Go back to occupying just a single sector, reverting r1.17 - r1.20. >> >> Umm, you have destroyed the ability to boot above 8G / cylinder 1024.. >> Where is the replacement functionality? This is a showstopper for people. > > If you're actually making some subtle point here, you'd better explain; > boot0 had the ability to boot above cylinder 1023 long before r1.17. Only when it was manually enabled. It wasn't an automatic operation, and thus you couldn't install out-of-the-box and have it work. You'd have to use the holographic shell on vty3 to run boot0cfg manually during the install for that to work. This new code uses it automatically when it detects that the cylinder is > 1024, or that the partition entry uses the magic value of 0xff for all of the CHS geometry. > -- > Robert Nordier > > rnordier@nordier.com > rnordier@FreeBSD.org -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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