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Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 10:34:31 -0500
From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@sc.rr.com>
To: ynishimura@home.nimc.go.jp
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Subject: Re: Does anyone know how to let fd0.1720 be bootable?
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In-Reply-To: <492569DA.003E3B39.00@cmnotesx.nimc.go.jp>; from ynishimura@home.nimc.go.jp on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 08:24:05PM +0900
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I think this is a BIOS issue.  I don't think any BIOS will let you
boot from arbitrarily-formatted floppies :)

On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 08:24:05PM +0900, ynishimura@home.nimc.go.jp wrote:
> Dear sirs
> 
> I  have been developing many kinds of 1FD-applications(
> http://www.ryuchi.org/~iloved ) with FreeBSD2.2.8.
> 
> 1FD-SQUID, 1FD-SAMBA, etc.
> 
> Recently, I can use fd0.1720( 21 Sectors/track, 82 track), not fd0.1440(18
> Sectors/track, 80 track).
> 
> But, fd0.1720 cannot be bootable.
> 
> I can see "boot: " message on screen, but it cannot load kernel because boot2
> cannot access fd0.1720.
> 
> I change RA_SECTORS from 18 to 21 in /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/disk.c. But, it
> could not boot.
> 
> Does anyone know how to let fd0.1720 be bootable?
> 
> Sincerely
> Y.NISHIMURA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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