From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 18 9:46:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC3637BA5F for ; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 09:46:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@baldwin.cx) Received: (from john@localhost) by john.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA05462; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 09:46:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john) Message-Id: <200006181646.JAA05462@john.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 09:46:56 -0700 (PDT) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Michael Reifenberger Subject: RE: install / boot last 3 gig of 25 gig drive Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeff Kreska Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18-Jun-00 Michael Reifenberger wrote: > Hi, > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > ... >> and support LBA mode so we can boot off of larger disks, but adding this >> support into some parts of the bootstrap has some far reaching consequences. >> As a result, boot0 most likely won't have support for large drives until >> 5.0, or possibly 4.2 or later on the 4.x branch. > using "boot0cfg -B -o packet ad0" solved the booting problem for me. > Previously I had to use the win98 bootloader and activate the partitions by > hand in a dual-boot configuration. Yes, I should have been more clear. What I am doing is fixing boot0 so that it autodetects and uses packet mode when necessary. This works around a chicken and egg problem whereby a user installs a system but can't boot into it to turn on packet mode. :) -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message