From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 19 08:27:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7873916A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chuggalug.clues.com (chuggalug.demon.co.uk [62.49.17.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02CD843D4C for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 08:27:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com) Received: from chuggalug.clues.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chuggalug.clues.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3JFMD3N068061 for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:22:13 GMT (envelope-from geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com) Received: (from geoffb@localhost) by chuggalug.clues.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i3JFMDHA068058 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:22:13 GMT (envelope-from geoffb) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:22:12 +0000 From: Geoff Buckingham To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040419152212.GA66959@chuggalug.clues.com> References: <20040419142242.GB65324@chuggalug.clues.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040419142242.GB65324@chuggalug.clues.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: newfs_msdos behaviour change between 4.x and 5? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:27:46 -0000 left out: fdisk -B -b /boot/cpq-mbr which uses an MBR captured from a Compaq server years ago. On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 02:22:42PM +0000, Geoff Buckingham wrote: > > Under 4.x the following produces a bootable dos fat partition: > > newfs_msdos -B /boot/win28.b -S 512 -r 32 -i l -c 32 -n 2 -k 6 -m 0xf8 /dev/da0s1 > mount_msdos -l /dev/da0s1 /dest > cp IO.SY /dest/ > cp MSDOS.SYS /dest/ > cp COMMAND.COM /dest/ > > Where /boot/win28.b is a dd'd copy of the first 28 512 byte > sectors of a bootable win95 sr2 partition and IO.SYS, > MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM come from the same FS. > > (Obviosley the da0s1 need to be created matching the BIOS's > idea of the GEOMTREY) > > However under 5.2.1 the above produces a non-bootable fs > > Any ideas where I should be looking for the cause of this? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"