From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Feb 7 09:41:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA14385 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 09:41:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from hauki.clinet.fi (hauki.clinet.fi [194.100.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA14366 for ; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 09:40:24 -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 TAA09891; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 19:39:38 +0200 (EET) Received: (hsu@localhost) by katiska.clinet.fi (8.7.3/8.6.4) id TAA09590; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 19:39:37 +0200 (EET) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 19:39:37 +0200 (EET) Message-Id: <199602071739.TAA09590@katiska.clinet.fi> From: Heikki Suonsivu To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD bugs list), hsu@clinet.fi Subject: Re: bin/984 In-Reply-To: <199602070838.JAA05165@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199602070215.SAA04303@freefall.freebsd.org> <199602070838.JAA05165@uriah.heep.sax.de> Organization: Clinet Ltd, Espoo, Finland Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. -- 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