Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:25:59 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <199611242225.OAA00748@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <410.848871469@critter.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Nov 24, 96 10:37:49 pm"
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> >> >Or we could get Poul-Henning to DTRT with libdisk - that would > >> >be a concept, and even the correct place to handle it. :-) > >> > >> I actually looked at this, and there are some comments in order: > >> > >> 1. I'm still not sure we know what TRT is. Although the MB/64hd/32sect > >> sounds like the best bet to me. > > > >I agree on the now knowing for sure what TRT is, I kinda liked the > >suggestion of defaulting to 0/0/0 and forcing the user to enter values, > >atleast that stops the X/1/1 problem dead in its track. > > Looking at the code the X/1/1 seems very deliberate and concious. I > wonder who did that and why ? Good point. I don't recall who did it, I can say that this works fine inside the BSD disklabel, but it is very problematic as an MBR entry. Perhaps the person propogated what works well in a disklabel, figuring that it also worked well for the MBR? > >> 2. Even if we did, I'd need a very dedicated tester with an NCR > >> controller to help me test it out on the only HW we know of that > >> fails. > > > >The NCR deals just fine with MB/64h/32s, I have 5 systems here running > >that way with disk sizes running from 500MB to 4.5G, all on NCR, all > >using MB/64/32. > > Yeah, but I need to have somebody test the sysinstall disk nontheless, > and I seem to recall that you have never been converted to the new > testament ? :-) The new testament doesn't work when you do between 2 and 15 installs a day, it gets in my way too often and even trying to use the batch mode script stuff looks to be troublesome as often each machine is just different enough.... dd/fdisk/disklabel/newfs/restore are my friends, they work very well for what I do and how much of it I do. Let me see if I can free up some of my tech's time on monday, he has done a few installs using sysinstall and could play with it for you on a NCR based system, heck for that matter, he can test it on NCR/ AHA2940/AHA1542/AHA1742/Buslogic 747/Buslogic 946 if you so desire. I think production builds are all done, so he shouldn't have much to do tomarrow... good project for him! -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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