From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 5 15: 4:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59F337B831 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 15:04:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA09388 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 15:04:47 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 15:03:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: current@freebsd.org Subject: subtle problem du jour.... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This really bit me- it shouldn't have- but it did.... I had a i386 system with a 4GB disk -- root partition ~1GB.... but the motherboard was setting up BIOS as a CHS instead of an LBA arrangement. The only time this showed up as problem was that when I reinstalled the loader (and related forth files), loader silently was not able to read /boot or /modules- the key word here is "silently". There ought to be a warning in loader(8) maybe about this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message