From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 9 14:16:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D052537B400 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal2.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64CCC43E3B for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:16:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP id GQF37091 for ; Fri, 09 Aug 2002 14:16:08 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54A3A5D04 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 2002 14:16:08 -0700 (PDT) To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: boot0cfg and fdisk will not write an mbr to boot past cyl. 1023 Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 14:16:08 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020809211608.54A3A5D04@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have confirmed that fdisk under sysinstall(8) writes a boot block that will work for booting from slices that begin past cylinder 1023. boot0cfg(8) and fdisk(8) write an MBR that is unable to boot from a slice that starts above 1023. Is this documented anywhere and is there any plan to update the normal commands to work properly for this case? Thanks, R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message