From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 24 16:49:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05125 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 16:49:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05108 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 16:49:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA19377; Sun, 24 May 1998 23:49:39 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id BAA00278; Mon, 25 May 1998 01:49:32 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980525014931.03345@follo.net> Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 01:49:31 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Mike Smith Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird behaviour in BootEasy References: <19980524024533.60246@follo.net> <199805240352.UAA03922@antipodes.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199805240352.UAA03922@antipodes.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sat, May 23, 1998 at 08:52:24PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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