Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 19:34:19 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Subject: Re: Weird behaviour in BootEasy Message-ID: <19980526193419.65069@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980526134508.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>; from Simon Shapiro on Tue, May 26, 1998 at 01:45:08PM -0400 References: <19980525014931.03345@follo.net> <XFMail.980526134508.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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On Tue, May 26, 1998 at 01:45:08PM -0400, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > On 24-May-98 Eivind Eklund wrote: > > ... > > > It changes it mind. After I have pressed 'F5', it reports 1024x64x32, > > before I've pressed F5 it reports 1024x122x32. Wonder how I can stop > > this; > > the easiest is probably by making BootEasy not write out the press of > > 'F2'. > > It isn't a correct fix, though. > > I am almost certain you are running on a confused array. When I built your > disks, I used dptmgr/fw0. Then I used the Geometry option in sysinstall to > arrange the disk in nice, round 1MB ``tracks''. The geometry you see comes > from the array re-build (the DPT firmware tries to squeeze as much of the > disk into BIOS=able geometry as possible. Somehow the two blocks are > present and somehow you are reading them both. > > Try (if practical) to wipe the disks and run dptmgr/fw0 to create a new > array. Not very practical; it's presently housing my homedir, my bootdrive, and most of my sources. :-( The interesting point here is that I _haven't_ re-initialized the array - I still have the original DOS slice I got from you. I've concatenated the two slices used to hold the 15 or so BSD paritions to a single slice with a boot partition, a swap partition, and a lagre 'e' partition for sources + homedir. I've run dptmgr.com (or something like that) from DOS a couple of times and re-built one disk, but I've not done anything that should have changed the basic array. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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