Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:34:31 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com> To: ynishimura@home.nimc.go.jp Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does anyone know how to let fd0.1720 be bootable? Message-ID: <20010120103431.D12408@cae88-102-101.sc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <492569DA.003E3B39.00@cmnotesx.nimc.go.jp>; from ynishimura@home.nimc.go.jp on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 08:24:05PM %2B0900 References: <492569DA.003E3B39.00@cmnotesx.nimc.go.jp>
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I think this is a BIOS issue. I don't think any BIOS will let you boot from arbitrarily-formatted floppies :) On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 08:24:05PM +0900, ynishimura@home.nimc.go.jp wrote: > Dear sirs > > I have been developing many kinds of 1FD-applications( > http://www.ryuchi.org/~iloved ) with FreeBSD2.2.8. > > 1FD-SQUID, 1FD-SAMBA, etc. > > Recently, I can use fd0.1720( 21 Sectors/track, 82 track), not fd0.1440(18 > Sectors/track, 80 track). > > But, fd0.1720 cannot be bootable. > > I can see "boot: " message on screen, but it cannot load kernel because boot2 > cannot access fd0.1720. > > I change RA_SECTORS from 18 to 21 in /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/disk.c. But, it > could not boot. > > Does anyone know how to let fd0.1720 be bootable? > > Sincerely > Y.NISHIMURA > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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