From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 8 0:42:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A08DD37B5B8 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 00:42:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p47-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.112]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id QAA18782; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 16:42:12 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3966DB76.311380D2@newsguy.com> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 16:42:46 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dampure, Pierre Y." Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot Oddities References: <39598B27.341B68CC@alveley.org> <3959A580.E6EDE4EC@alveley.org> <395A1A38.94D5880@alveley.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Dampure, Pierre Y." wrote: > > Apologies to all, this was a pilot error. /boot/defaults/loader.conf was > referencing disk1s1a -- it should have been disk2s1a (I forgot the > floppy was included in the unit count). For the record, this _cannot_ be the cause of the problem you had. I'd rather bet the loader binary was above 1023 cylinders, and after playing a while you replaced it with one below that mark. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org _DES: The Book of Bruce has only one sentence in it, and it says "the actual directives of my cult are left as an exercise for the reader. Good luck." jkh: does it really include the 'good luck' part? EE: OK, I made that part up. EE: I figured it should sound a bit more cheery than how Bruce initially dictated it to me. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message