Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 8 Feb 1996 00:22:55 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        hsu@clinet.fi (Heikki Suonsivu)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, hsu@clinet.fi
Subject:   Re: bin/984
Message-ID:  <199602072322.AAA07434@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199602071739.TAA09590@katiska.clinet.fi> from "Heikki Suonsivu" at Feb 7, 96 07:39:37 pm

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As Heikki Suonsivu wrote:
> 
>  > 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

So you could at least drop a message of your disagreement.

> 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.

Booteasy is at the mercy of your BIOS.  It's not booteasy that can
decide about which translation to use.  Sorry, but *we* cannot fix
this problem.  It's a braindamage inherent to PC BIOSes.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199602072322.AAA07434>