Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 19:39:37 +0200 (EET) From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list), hsu@clinet.fi Subject: Re: bin/984 Message-ID: <199602071739.TAA09590@katiska.clinet.fi> In-Reply-To: <199602070838.JAA05165@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199602070215.SAA04303@freefall.freebsd.org> <199602070838.JAA05165@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J. Wunsch writes:
> As Paul Traina wrote:
> >
> > Synopsis: Swapping motherboard makes FreeBSD unbootable (booteasy)
>
> > This isn't a freebsd bug, but rather a disagreement about system boot
> > translations. A possible fix is to fdisk/mbr from DOS and then disklable -B
> > the FreeBSD partition, but do backups first!
>
> 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
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.
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