From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 20 08:19:26 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA23907 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 08:19:26 -0700 Received: from deep-thought.demos.su (root@deep-thought.demos.su [192.91.186.133]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA23898 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 08:18:57 -0700 Received: by deep-thought.demos.su id TAA00323; (8.6.11/D) Tue, 20 Jun 1995 19:17:45 +0400 To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Bruce Evans Message-ID: Organization: DEMOS Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 19:17:44 +0400 (MSD) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.38 FreeBSD] From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= aka "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" X-Class: Fast Subject: Just FYI, new bootblocks unable to load old (pre-slice) systems Lines: 13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 645 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Maybe it is intentional, but very unpleasant :-( New bootblocks says: partition is out of reach from the bios on old default partition: 255,1023,63 50000 Converting it to right partition via sysinstall is impossible due to different start offset. Converting it manually involves some unpleasant calculations. I forced to find and restore old boot2 :-( -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849