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Date:      Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:42:08 -0800
From:      Stephen Wynne <stevemw@northwest.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New mount/slice changes for root device 
Message-ID:  <199803102142.NAA02605@northwest.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:10:34 PST." <199803102110.NAA20209@dingo.cdrom.com> 

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In message <199803102110.NAA20209@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: 

    There is a typo in the code responsible for this message; you can 
    safely ignore it as you surmised.  It'll be fixed shortly.

I had to change my root from /dev/wd0a to /dev/wd0sNa as well. (In my
case, N = 2 because of some bizarre things I'm doing with NT.) I have
some other related things to observe that may not be specific to this
update.

    o I have an odd configuration with just one 1.9GB /. Don't ask -- NT is
      involved, and it was what I used to create the partition table.
    o I seem to have to fsck every time I boot now! Perhaps all the
      "-c" boots are doing that to me...

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?
    o I ran into problems with the BOUNCE_BUFFERS option at that point.
    o I didn't know what to do, so I gave up and gladly compiled and booted
      from a normal kernel, which is working fine.

Suggestions on how to deal with the error I got with my bounce buffers?

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.

Thanks,

Steve

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