Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:19:55 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Jeremie Le Hen <jeremie@le-hen.org>, "Wilkinson, Alex" <alex.wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> Subject: Re: [TEST/REVIEW] boot0cfg/fdisk issue fix Message-ID: <200507121019.56737.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050712121036.GM39292@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> References: <200507090932.12973.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200507111044.52693.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20050712121036.GM39292@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org>
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On Tuesday 12 July 2005 08:10 am, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Hi John, > > > > what is boot0ext ? > > > > It's a 2-sector variant of boot0 that includes extra logic to choose > > between CHS and LBA BIOS calls and a longer table of filesystem/OS names. > > Are there some drawbacks that would prevent an i386 user from using it ? It used to be the default boot0 a few years ago, but there were a few machines that it would hang on that I don't think were ever worked around/fixed, so it was reverted. It should work on most x86 machines just fine however. You should be able to use boot0cfg to install it still. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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