Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 09:24:35 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: To everyone who's been having trouble with the new "booteasy" Message-ID: <199810190724.JAA01380@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <2317.908765344@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Oct 18, 98 07:49:04 pm"
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> First, an explanation: In 3.0, we're no longer using booteasy, we're
> using Robert Nordier's boot0 replacement which is hosted entirely
> under FreeBSD (a major win). However, some people have also reported
> big problems with this so, for the mean time, I've decided to go back
> to booteasy with sysinstall until we figure out what's going on. The
> 3.0 SNAPshots will still continue to use the boot0 code so those
> wishing to help Robert figure out what's going on can and should
> continue to install snaps from current.freebsd.org. The 3.0 release
> bits on ftp.freebsd.org (and the 3.0-RELEASE CDROMs) will continue to
> use the older booteasy bits for now; I've just re-rolled and copied
> over boot floppy bits which do so.
The problem is that boot0 is attempting to make use of an "extended"
BIOS read function, if BIOS indicates that this is available.
On some machines, this extended function either doesn't work as
expected, or is unduly sensitive to the geometry BIOS is using for
the drive.
It would be trivial to fix boot0 to do only what booteasy does, but
that would really just avoid the issue.
If anyone who has been having problems would take five minutes to
run a small diagnostics program
http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/bootck-0.02.tar.gz
(just dd the enclosed binary onto a floppy and reboot), I'd certainly
appreciate it.
--
Robert Nordier
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