Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 15:28:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: subtle problem du jour.... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10007051528430.85994-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200007052218.PAA13242@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > 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? > > The loader used to bitch if it couldn't find its startup files, but this > got turned off because people didn't like it. There would be a couple of > ways to deal with the problem you're seeing (in addition to the very > worthwhile documentation) - > > a) bitch if the loader.rc file can't be found/read. > > b) bitch in the BIOS disk driver if an illegal read is attempted. > > Both of these might have given you enough clue to help find the problem > more quickly. Any comments, folks? both would have been helpful To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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