From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Feb 9 17:11:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA20221 for bugs-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 17:11:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from hauki.clinet.fi (root@hauki.clinet.fi [194.100.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA20210 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 17:11:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from katiska.clinet.fi (root@katiska.clinet.fi [194.100.0.4]) by hauki.clinet.fi (8.7.3/8.6.4) with ESMTP id DAA11017; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 03:10:33 +0200 (EET) Received: (root@localhost) by katiska.clinet.fi (8.7.3/8.6.4) id DAA02269; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 03:10:32 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 03:10:32 +0200 (EET) Message-Id: <199602100110.DAA02269@katiska.clinet.fi> From: Heikki Suonsivu To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), hsu@clinet.fi, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list) Subject: Re: bin/984 In-Reply-To: <199602090752.IAA15536@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199602090336.OAA18315@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199602090752.IAA15536@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: Heikki Suonsivu Organization: Clinet Ltd, Espoo, Finland Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J. Wunsch writes: > As Bruce Evans wrote: > > > > > (No, i'm not going to buy just another motherboard to see your > > > > problems fixed. Even if i did -- i wouldn't had the problem in the > > > > first place, or whaddaya think why i've been inventing the > > > > ``dangerously dedicated'' mode? :) > > > > For ideological reasons. > > Not only. :) I've got too many complaints from industry users and > other people running dedicated FreeBSD systems. Describing them that > they first had to install something called DOS didn't make a good > impression... and was not necessary. > > > With a geometry of 1 sector/track and 1 track/cylinder, anything larger > > than 1MB will be above the 1024 cylinder mark. > > Hmm, we only support >= 15 sectors/track, the size of the bootstrap > code (which is assumed to be on cylinder 0 head 0). I got nnnnnnnn/1/1 geometry after swapping BT ISA controller to a NCR PCI controller (any idea where does it figure out that one from?). After some playing around, corrupting primary boot with suitable fdisk and then reinstalling boot with disklabel and new 1003/64/32 geometry I got everything working with NCR scsi controller with only minor damage (the devices are now sd0x instead of sd0s1x). The other machine is more hairy as it is supposed to have the /64/32 geometry according to fdisk and disklabel, but I'll do more digging in couple of days. Thanks for the ideas. -- Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND, hsu@clinet.fi mobile +358-40-5519679 work +358-0-4375360 fax -4555276 home -8031121