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From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
Organization: Universidad del Pais Vasco - Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica
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To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
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Subject: Re: The trouble with boot0
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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
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