From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 10 02:20:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA25046 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 02:20:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA25016 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 02:20:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA01018; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 02:19:18 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802101019.CAA01018@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Zach Heilig cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootblock sizes (was bad144 ravings) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Feb 1998 04:09:57 CST." <19980210040957.27917@gaffaneys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 02:19:17 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, Feb 07, 1998 at 02:54:53PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > The issue at hand here is the size of the 'boot2' file, which may not > > exceed 14 sectors @ 512B each (in order to fit on a 15spt disk), or > > 7168 bytes. > > Doesn't FreeBSD require a 1.44MB disk to install from? That would give > us 18spt, or 9216 bytes. That should give enough room for bad144 as > well as the recent enhancements. Unless there are some harddisks that > have less than 18spt. Looking through /etc/disktab, I see: > > pan60|Panasonic Laptop's 60MB IDE:\ > :dt=ST506:ty=winchester:se#512:nt#13:ns#17:nc#565:\ > ^^ > So maybe 17 should be the upper limit. That won't let the bootblocks hide inside the label space in a filesystem on a dedicated disk. We've been through this already; I'm sorry for giving the wrong justification in my previous message. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message