Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 08:34:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 install failure: booting from fd0 in stead of sd0 Message-ID: <199608270634.IAA11231@gvr.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <199608270524.HAA22579@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Aug 27, 96 07:24:18 am"
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J Wunsch wrote: > Herein lies the rub. dosdev == 0 means it's a floppy disk. boot.c > converts this into `maj = 2'. Only if the 0x80 flag is set, it will > move to maj = 0 (wd) or maj = 4 (sd). > > If i read the code right, it looks as if your BIOS doesn't pass the > correct value in %dl down to the bootstrap. (It apparently passes > 0 there as opposed to the boot drive BIOS ID.) Call it ``broken''... > > Your only chance short of replacing the BIOS is to hack the bootcode > on your harddisk so it will never try booting off a floppy again. I concluded the same. However, how can it be that a previously installed NT on a FAT filesystem does boot? -Guido
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