Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 04:56:07 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: hsu@clinet.fi, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: bin/984 Message-ID: <199602081756.EAA28874@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> 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. Actually it should be possible to fix it by running fdisk to set the new C/H/S values. The braindamage isn't inherent - it doesn't seem to be present in the BT445C BIOS. Is the NCR BIOS braindamaged? I just got one and something is to broken for it to work at all :-). Bruce
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