From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Feb 7 15:24:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA06951 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 15:24:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA06941 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 15:24:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA18623; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:24:06 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA08850; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:24:05 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id AAA07434; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:22:55 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199602072322.AAA07434@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bin/984 To: hsu@clinet.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:22:55 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, hsu@clinet.fi Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199602071739.TAA09590@katiska.clinet.fi> from "Heikki Suonsivu" at Feb 7, 96 07:39:37 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Heikki Suonsivu wrote: > > > This suggested fix is not quite right, but i've been suggesting one in > > reply to the report, and didn't receive any response after this from > > the PR originator. > > I didn't see that as an easy solution. I was thinking of doing a dd So you could at least drop a message of your disagreement. > if=/dev/sd0c of=/dev/sd0 from fixit floppy, as booteasy is just an extra > delay on boot for me. If the de facto standard is that from motherboard to > motherboard the translation can either be the disk originated geometry or > /64/32 geometry, booteasy should probably try both. In my case I was using > the same NCR controller, the NCR bios on the motherboards differed. Booteasy is at the mercy of your BIOS. It's not booteasy that can decide about which translation to use. Sorry, but *we* cannot fix this problem. It's a braindamage inherent to PC BIOSes. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)