Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:22:12 +0000 From: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@chuggalug.clues.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newfs_msdos behaviour change between 4.x and 5? Message-ID: <20040419152212.GA66959@chuggalug.clues.com> In-Reply-To: <20040419142242.GB65324@chuggalug.clues.com> References: <20040419142242.GB65324@chuggalug.clues.com>
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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"
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