From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jan 11 15:10:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA16174 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 15:10:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA16119; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 15:10:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Resent-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 15:10:02 -0800 (PST) Resent-Message-Id: <199801112310.PAA16119@hub.freebsd.org> Resent-From: gnats (GNATS Management) Resent-To: freebsd-bugs Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@NUXI.com Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA15671 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 15:02:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (d60-090.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.90]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA06150 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 15:02:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.7/8.7.3) id XAA17385; Sun, 11 Jan 1998 23:02:11 GMT Message-Id: <199801112302.XAA17385@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 23:02:11 GMT From: "David O'Brien" Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 Subject: kern/5481: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Number: 5481 >Category: kern >Synopsis: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jan 11 15:10:01 PST 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: David O'Brien >Organization: The FreeBSD Project >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386 >Environment: FBSD boot disk is sd0, but I have wd0 and wd1's installed. >Description: if you uncomment the definition for BOOT_HD_BIAS in sys/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/Makefile and then make, you get dd if=boot.nohdr of=boot2 bs=512 skip=1 14+1 records in 14+1 records out 7200 bytes transferred in 0.001314 secs (5479269 bytes/sec) boot2 is too big *** Error code 2 Obvisouly this isn't so serious now that we have /boot.config, but I liked hard coding this into the boot blocks so I don't have to worry about the existance of this file. >How-To-Repeat: obvious >Fix: help, bde :-) >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: