Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 13:29:37 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/mbr Makefile mbr.s src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 Makefile boot1.S Message-ID: <200412041329.37673.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <200412021901.iB2J1kMr097197@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200412021901.iB2J1kMr097197@repoman.freebsd.org>
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On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:01 am, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > yar 2004-12-02 19:01:46 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_5) > sys/boot/i386/mbr Makefile mbr.s > sys/boot/i386/boot2 Makefile boot1.S > Log: > MFC: Try using packet mode by default, but provide a user > with a knob to disable it at build time--flag 0x80 for > BOOT_MBR_FLAGS and BOOT_BOOT1_FLAGS. In fact, disabling > packet mode completely, even a test for it, should be > necessary only for old and brain-damaged machines FreeBSD 5 > will hardly run on. BTW: I tried to install 5.3-R on an empty 160G disk. I created a single 16G swap and the rest was a single fs (it was a test box). boot2 could not find the loader. Is this the same problem that you've fixed, or is this something else? Maybe having the rootfs start 16GB into the disk is a bad idea? -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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