From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 24 17:14:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11110 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 May 1998 17:14:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles212.castles.com [208.214.165.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11044 for ; Sun, 24 May 1998 17:13:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA08745; Sun, 24 May 1998 16:09:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805242309.QAA08745@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Eivind Eklund cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Weird behaviour in BootEasy In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 May 1998 01:49:31 +0200." <19980525014931.03345@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 16:09:37 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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. Sorry, I meant "press F4 instead of F5 the first time around". I am trying to gather more data on what the DPT might be doing that changes its geometry ideas. > F4 doesn't work (on any of the places where I press F-keys above). 8( > > 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. Sorry, my turn to typo - F5 *should* appear if you have an *even* number of disks. It will appear if you have exactly two. > > > > 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. Aha! Thankyou for digging this out - it confirms what I thought. > 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. You could hack BootEasy to always assume *x64*32, but that's not correct either. 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message