From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 28 12: 7:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hurricane.columbus.rr.com (m5.columbus.rr.com [204.210.252.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B51D037BFC8 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:07:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from caa@columbus.rr.com) Received: from columbus.rr.com ([204.210.243.142]) by hurricane.columbus.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-53939U80000L80000S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 15:07:35 -0500 Received: (from caa@localhost) by columbus.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA28342; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 15:07:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from caa) Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 15:07:23 -0500 From: "Charles Anderson" To: NAKAJI Hiroyuki Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please test for 8G-OVER-Booting with /boot/loader Message-ID: <20000328150723.A28294@midgard.dhs.org> References: <87n1njbrfj.fsf@nakaji.tutrp.tut.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <87n1njbrfj.fsf@nakaji.tutrp.tut.ac.jp>; from nakaji@tutrp.tut.ac.jp on Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:21:36PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a Thinkpad 600X here that I installed freebsd on the third partition, but couldn't boot because of the >1024 cylinder bit, so I booted a Fixit floppy mounted my freebsd partitions, installed this patch, patched boot1 to always try packet mode and copied it over to the ntfs boot partition and used it from the NT Loader, and it booted right up, both natively and under VMware. I had to do a lot of mucking around to get things to the point where I could mount slice 3, the FreeBSD partition, and build the new boot code. -Charlie On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 02:21:36PM +0900, NAKAJI Hiroyuki wrote: > How can I test this with FreeBSD which is installed over-8GB area and > can't boot? > > I have a PC on which Solaris7 is installed within 8GB from the start > of disk and FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE is installed after(?) it. > > The installation was successfull. But I can't boot it. > > How can I install this patched /boot/loader in this dead system? > -- > NAKAJI Hiroyuki > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Charles Anderson caa@columbus.rr.com No quote, no nothin' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message