From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 8 04:41:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA00643 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 04:41:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from friley216.res.iastate.edu (friley216.res.iastate.edu [129.186.78.216]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA00638 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 04:41:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from friley216.res.iastate.edu (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by friley216.res.iastate.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA00324 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 1996 06:41:26 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199611081241.GAA00324@friley216.res.iastate.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Write-back boot blocks? Why not... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 06:41:26 -0600 From: "Chris Csanady" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently came upon an IDE drive, so I have been poking around at things to get it to boot off my scsi. I must say, Im sure there are plenty of new, users that get fairly disgusted trying to this to work. :( Anyway, does the NAMEBLOCK_WRITEBACK feature of biosboot work? (documented in /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/Makefile) I noticed it was commented out. I think it would be a really nice feature for 2.2 if it worked. If not, perhaps the BOOT_HD_BIAS variable should be mentioned in the handbook or somewhere else obvious. :) Just thought I'd bring it to everyones attention.. --Chris Csanady