Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 12:02:35 +0100 From: Mark Valentine <mark@linus.demon.co.uk> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problem with new biosboot? Message-ID: <199505111102.MAA01575@linus.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp's message of May 10, 3:58pm
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> From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> > Date: Wed 10 May, 1995 > Subject: Re: problem with new biosboot? > The rule is simple: > > For the boot-bloks to work, no sector needed to read the kernel > must be past cylinder 1023, because we use the bios to read in > the kernel. > > This is uncheckable, and undeterministic, so the check is: > the filesystem from which the kernel is read, must have no blocks > past cylider 1023. > > Partition 2 is the entire slice, always. *ding* My obvious mistake was in assuming I knew the context of the code I was looking at, without checking. I was reading "partition" as "slice" because I thought I was having problems with the slice configuration (the slice is obviously >1024 cylinders in untranslated geometry, whereas my 'a' partition isn't, no matter how you look at it!). OK, now I'm pointed in the right direction, I'll try Bruce's s/spt/spc/ tonight... Cheers, Mark.
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