From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 18 18:39:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lh2.rdc1.tx.home.com (ha2.rdc1.tx.home.com [24.4.0.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E2DE37BB1A; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 18:39:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeff@kreska.org) Received: from jody ([24.21.161.123]) by lh2.rdc1.tx.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with SMTP id <20000619013937.RUUH27471.lh2.rdc1.tx.home.com@jody>; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 18:39:37 -0700 Reply-To: From: "Jeff Kreska" To: "John Baldwin" , "Michael Reifenberger" Cc: Subject: RE: install / boot last 3 gig of 25 gig drive Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 20:43:55 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200006181646.JAA05462@john.baldwin.cx> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think there is something wrong with the install prog. 2 things to note: The partition table is corrupt after a install. (even if I don't install anything and just go into the intaller's fdisk like screen and type "w".) If I set the BSD partition active the system beeps at start up and says no Operating System. Are there specs for how to create a partition past the 1024 cyl? I would like to verify that the installer is writing the correct entries to the disk. > Subject: RE: install / boot last 3 gig of 25 gig drive > > > > On 18-Jun-00 Michael Reifenberger wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > ... > >> and support LBA mode so we can boot off of larger disks, but > adding this > >> support into some parts of the bootstrap has some far reaching > consequences. > >> As a result, boot0 most likely won't have support for large > drives until > >> 5.0, or possibly 4.2 or later on the 4.x branch. > > using "boot0cfg -B -o packet ad0" solved the booting problem for me. > > Previously I had to use the win98 bootloader and activate the > partitions by > > hand in a dual-boot configuration. > > Yes, I should have been more clear. What I am doing is fixing boot0 so > that it autodetects and uses packet mode when necessary. This > works around > a chicken and egg problem whereby a user installs a system but can't boot > into it to turn on packet mode. :) > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message