Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 21:26:01 +0200 (MET DST) From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.05R: failure to get fd parameters correctly Message-ID: <199506181926.VAA03960@gvr.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <199506181918.FAA04907@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 19, 95 05:18:08 am
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That explains a lot..thanks.. -Guido Bruce Evans wrote: > > >> >is bad. I dont want DOS. And I dont understand why I caanot use the geometry > >> >reported by 2.0R when booting for the 2.05R installs... > > >This is waht 2.0R thought of it: > > >sd2: 2006MB (4108600 total sec), 3053 cyl, 12 head, 112 sec, bytes/sec 512 > > 2.0R worked because it didn't insist on a valid geometry (sec < 64) and the > invalid geometry happened not to be used (only one partition starting on > the first track). > > Bruce >
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