Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 10:56:57 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The trouble with boot0 Message-ID: <3A2CBBE8.41C4BAD8@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <200012042029.eB4KTDs02259@nordier.com>
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Robert Nordier wrote: > > The behaviour of "noupdate" shouldn't have changed. Though FreeBSD's > boot2 has always ignored any partition table entry pointer that > gets passed to it in the i386 SI register by the MBR code; and that > means it depends completely on the active flag where multiple FreeBSD > partitions are present on the same disk. OK. Indeed there were two FreeBSD partitions on the disk. > I've really no idea what LARGE does, specifically. I've always > thought of it as just a synonym for LBA, but that evidently doesn't > apply to your BIOS. I had the same idea :-) Unfortunately, the BIOS ``documentation'' does not explain anything about these settings, as usual. The PC is a cheap Fujitsu and uses an Award BIOS. Thanks for your valuable help. Cheers, -- JMA ****** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ****** ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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