From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 14 14:40:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (2811.dynacom.net [206.107.213.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D06237B417; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.03) id A9361BA0098; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:40:06 -0700 Message-ID: <3BA27936.E3D2FF13@urx.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:40:06 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: rnordier@FreeBSD.org, msmith@freebsd.org, roam@ringlet.net, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > > On 14-Sep-01 Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > John Baldwin wrote: > >> > >> On 14-Sep-01 Kent Stewart wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > rnordier@FreeBSD.org wrote: > >> >> > >> >> Kent Stewart wrote: > >> >> > >> >> > Mike Smith wrote: > >> >> > > > >> >> > > > So.. if I read you right, booting correctly for > 1024 cylinders > >> >> > > > works > >> >> > > > if boot0 knows about it. Isn't boot0 the one in the MBR, not in > >> >> > > > the > >> >> > > > fbsd > >> >> > > > slice? Does this mean that boot1 and boot2 should work just fine > >> >> > > > if > >> >> > > > they > >> >> > > > are loaded by another kind of MBR loader (say, Grub), and they find > >> >> > > > out > >> >> > > > that they are placed beyond the 1023th cylinder? > >> >> > > > >> >> > > This should work, yes. > >> >> > > >> >> > I tried this with a boot1 from FreeBSD 4.4-rc and get a BTX error. I > >> >> > had to go back to the boot1 from 4.3 before I could boot. > >> >> > >> >> That could be serious. Can you post a brief description of your > >> >> hardware, together with the BTX register dump if possible? boot1 was > >> >> changed to address some problems with certain hardware, so it is > >> >> important to know if other incompatibilities have been introduced. > >> > > >> > The hardware is Abit VP6 mb w/dual 866 coppermines & 256 MB of PC-133 > >> > memory. Disk0 is a Maxtor 30 GB, disk1&2 are on the HPT-370 controller > >> > and are also Maxtor 30 GB drives. The 2 HD's on the HPT-370 are > >> > identical models. All are rated at ATA-100. The loader has been Win XP > >> > Pro since beta2 and runs FreeBSD about half of the time. > >> > > >> > BTX - Register dump > >> > > >> > int=00000006 err=00000000 efl=00030216 eip=00000de7 > >> > eax=00001d3a ebx=000030ff ecx=0000001f edx=000000ce > >> > esi=00000001 edi=00000009 ebp=000003fe esp=000003b1 > >> > cs=2364 ds=0000 es=0204 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9dc5 > >> > cs:eip=0f 00 00 00 70 00 00 00-00 00 00 68 1e 00 00 00 > >> > ss:esp=b9 0d 00 00 00 fe 03 c2-03 02 01 80 00 1f 00 01 > >> > BTX halted > >> > >> 00000000 0F0000 sldt [bx+si] > >> 00000003 007000 add [bx+si+0x0],dh > >> 00000006 0000 add [bx+si],al > >> 00000008 0000 add [bx+si],al > >> 0000000A 00681E add [bx+si+0x1e],ch > >> 0000000D 0000 add [bx+si],al > >> > >> That doesn't look to be very sane. > >> > >> Are you sure you haven't mixed an old version of boot2 with a new boot1 or > >> vice > >> versa? > > > > Yes, > > > > coral# mount_msdos /dev/ad0s1 /mnt > > coral# cmp /mnt/boot1 /boot/boot1 > > coral# > > > > They test identical. Boot1 was copied to bootsect.bsd, which is > > referenced in boot.ini. > > Umm, ok. Did you do 'disklabel -B' to update the boot blocks on the disk (the > boot blocks do _not_ live in the /boot files, they are part of the disklabel) > when you updated the boot1 in bootsect.bsd? That I didn't do. What do I need to do? I'm reading the man page and this is foreign country. This system was created at 4.2 and they were created for me at that point. I don't want to have to reset the ntldr butI could find the floppies to do a console recovery if I have to. Kent > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message