From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 23 04:20:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA22383 for current-outgoing; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 04:20:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA22378; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 04:20:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost.dk.tfs.com [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id NAA11723; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:21:15 +0100 (MET) To: Michael Smith cc: stesin@gu.net (Andrew Stesin), fenner@parc.xerox.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 23 Nov 1996 22:38:12 +1030." <199611231208.WAA22633@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:21:14 +0100 Message-ID: <11721.848751674@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >*shrug* Bruce recently posted the results of some tests he performed, >which matched with my empirical observations that the NCR BIOS reads >the contents of the MBR and reports its geometry to match. > >I've lost cou8nt of the number of NCR-using systems I've installed; >I'm sure that I've used the DD option before and it's worked, but I've >certainly had more than a few cases where users have selected it and >been bitten. Hmm, we could try to write the fake MBR so it represents some sane geometry in that particular case. That would help i guess. Somebody with an NCR will have to do it though. I belive you can get away with it if you use the 2.2-ALPHA boot floppy, and use the wizard mode in the fdisk menu. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.