Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:39:21 +0000 (GMT) From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> Cc: Ferdinand Goldmann <ferdl@atommuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD & 1720K floppies Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0104032335390.12396-100000@www.everquick.net> In-Reply-To: <200104032239.AAA70589@info.iet.unipi.it>
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> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 00:39:33 +0200 (CEST) > From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> > > > Has anyone managed to get PicoBSD to boot from larger floppy disks > > than 1440K? > > it's a bios issue, you can hope to make the 1480 format work (it > did for me, not with vmware though) but none of the machines i have > tried is able to handle 21 sectors per track. This is the source > of the error you are seeing, and there is no straightforward > workaround implemented at the moemnt. *puzzled look* http://www.toms.net/rb/tomsrtbt.FAQ I've not tried PicoBSD, but I've been able to boot the above 1722kB from every 1.44 machine that I've tried. I hope that I'm not missing something, here... not following the subject too closely, but I'm a bit puzzled on the "BIOS issue" bit. Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. EverQuick Internet / EternalCommerce Division Phone: (316) 794-8922 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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