From owner-cvs-all Mon Oct 2 14:53: 7 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from netplex.com.au (adsl-63-207-30-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.207.30.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A722B37B503; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:53:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netplex.com.au (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netplex.com.au (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e92LqqG10093; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 14:52:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200010022152.e92LqqG10093@netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Robert Nordier Cc: John Baldwin , Robert Nordier , cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot0 Makefile boot0.s In-Reply-To: <200010022110.XAA21513@c2-dbn-94.dial-up.net> Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 14:52:52 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Nordier wrote: > John Baldwin wrote: > > > On 02-Oct-00 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. > > > Taking over the sector following the MBR causes problems on some > > > machines, and the actual gains are fairly small in terms of how > > > the space is presently used. > > > > Err, being able to boot past the 1024 cylinder boundary automagically and > > during install is a rather sizable gain I should think. It even ended up > > as a bullet on the back of the 4.1 CD set. :-( > > I agree that automagical installation support is a feature, but I > don't believe that boot0 has to be bloated to twice the size, and > has to become prone to mysterious failures in order to achieve this. Well, if you dont want to do it automatically, then how about you make a sysinstall tweak to have it call boot0cfg to enable EDD mode when the circumstances require it? (eg: >= 1024, >= 8G etc). -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message