From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Sep 23 12:46:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA14113 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:46:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA14061; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:46:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA04433; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 21:45:50 +0200 (MET DST) To: Bill Fenner cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:23:31 PDT." <96Sep23.122335pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 21:45:50 +0200 Message-ID: <4431.843507950@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <96Sep23.122335pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>, Bill Fenner writ es: >>So does this mean you'll look at the boot code? ;-) > >Unfortunately, no. But I'll try to replicate it and then submit a detailed >PR so that we have something to remind us about the problem... I have been very far down this road a couple of times, and unless somebody has messed up our bootblocks, this invariably has been a valid message. Remember that FreeBSD may not get the Geometry right all the time, so just because disklabel says that your root partition is below 1024 doesn't actually guarantee that is so... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.