From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 24 10:10:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA03029 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:10:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA02997 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:09:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id DAA07533 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 03:37:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA19316 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:36:05 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA20286 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:36:05 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id MAA10948 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:31:15 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611241131.MAA10948@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:31:15 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611240645.WAA02008@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Nov 23, 96 10:45:23 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > Humm... let me see... if I get this right (I don't use sysinstall, but > > > I have seen this X/1/1 translation thing it does) sysinstall defaults to > > > a X/1/1 translation, and even goes so far as to write that into the > > > MBR on a ``dangerously dedicated'' install. > > > > This was what phk recommended as proper "hint" values for libdisk in ...but turns out to be the worst suggestion he could come up with. :) DD mode works with anything of at least 15 spt. > > the dangerously-dedicated case. What would you suggest instead? > > As ``hint'' values I would suggest X/64/32 (C/H/S) for SCSI drives, > for IDE, well, hummmm... Don't worry. Anything with at least 15 spt will work. IDE drives get their BIOS geometry from the BIOS setup anyway, not by implying some semantics to block 0 of the first disk. (This implication as it is apparently done by some SCSI controllers seems to be a big crock to me, but oh well, we're in a PeeCee world here.) X/64/32 is okay. Basically, Jordan, the entire message is a big bogosity at all. I've always been annoyed by it. Why not leave it alone in the DD case? (NB: i _don't_ advocate for the latter change for 2.2, but for 3.0-current.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)