Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 02:47:59 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Stephen Wynne <stevemw@northwest.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New mount/slice changes for root device Message-ID: <199803111048.CAA22686@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 1998 13:42:08 PST." <199803102142.NAA02605@northwest.com>
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> > 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
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