Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 13:34:17 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz <scott@statsci.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 80387 hangs system at divide by zero Message-ID: <m0rzVZd-000r3wC@main.statsci.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Apr 1995 22:20:03 %2B0200." <199504132020.WAA14843@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
> The image is kept small enough to fit on a 1.2 MB disk, but it can be
> placed as well on a 1.44 MB disk -- this way, we satisfy both camps.
That's what I figured - I know I've heard that said of both FreeBSD &
Linux boot disks. Just wondering if it is possible for the boot disc to
be created in such a way as to make it not _always_ work on 1.44Mb drives.
I don't know the structure of the bytes on the disc, so I even tried this
(from Linux):
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fd0
before rawrite-ing the disc to make sure there was no stray garbage laying
around (a naive-i-don't-know-how-it-works kind of thing to do). No
difference in bootability of the disc.
Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 StatSci, a div of MathSoft, Inc.
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