Date: Fri, 08 Nov 1996 12:51:43 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Write-back boot blocks? Why not... Message-ID: <32839D5F.794BDF32@whistle.com> References: <199611081241.GAA00324@friley216.res.iastate.edu>
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Chris Csanady wrote: > > 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.. WE (whistle Communications) use the NAMEBLOCK_WRITEBACK feature in our product. it allows us to make a turn-key box that can boot to an alternate root partition if the first one has screwed up.... (actually that's why we wrote it ) the version in -current is not quite correct. you need to check out boot.c with tag JULIAN_HACK to get the version that works corrently. julian (E)
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