Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 01:49:31 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird behaviour in BootEasy Message-ID: <19980525014931.03345@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199805240352.UAA03922@antipodes.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sat, May 23, 1998 at 08:52:24PM -0700 References: <19980524024533.60246@follo.net> <199805240352.UAA03922@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 08:52:24PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > F5 doesn't appear. Originally, I had another bootable disk as the > > first disk on an Adaptec in the machine. F5 didn't appear, but when I > > pressed it I got the other bootblock. This no longer happen - I get > > 'F?' when I press F5. Then I reboot, and F1/F2 appears again, with F5 > > as default. If I press F5 here, it boot correctly. > > Try pressing F4 instead, I'd be interested to know if that works too. Typo above. "If I press F2 here, it boot correctly." it should have been. F4 doesn't work (on any of the places where I press F-keys above). > F5 will appear if you have an odd number of disks in the machine. I have 4 disks. I can probably kill one of them for testing if that would provide any interesting data. > > > The FreeBSD driver probably nukes some state in the DPT that tells it > > > that it's changed its mind about the geometry. > > > > That's possible; I don't know the details of how the DPT handles this. > > Neither do I. 8( It changes it mind. After I have pressed 'F5', it reports 1024x64x32, before I've pressed F5 it reports 1024x122x32. Wonder how I can stop this; the easiest is probably by making BootEasy not write out the press of 'F2'. It isn't a correct fix, though. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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