From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 11 02:50:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA23891 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:50:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA23886 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:50:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA22686; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:48:00 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803111048.CAA22686@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Stephen Wynne cc: Mike Smith , Robert Watson , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New mount/slice changes for root device In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:42:08 PST." <199803102142.NAA02605@northwest.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:47:59 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > I, too survived the "broken window" yesterday to cvsup twice, but then > when I got it all together, I tried to create a debugging kernel, and > I suddenly got hit with the 1023-cylinder limit from > /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/disk.c: line 223. > > o I adventurously modified this to the limit which my bios accepts, > and then booted again. Is that OK? What is the limit your BIOS accepts? Did it work? Perhaps we should soften the failure to a warning? > o I ran into problems with the BOUNCE_BUFFERS option at that point. What problems were they? Do you have an ISA busmaster adapter that requires bouncebuffering? > By the way, I now have my vibra16 (Soundblaster 16 PnP) working very > well with Luigi Rizzo's bits. FreeBSD is rocking -- literally! I'll > stick a web page up on how I did it if anyone is interested. Documentation and descriptions are always welcome! -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message