Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 23:02:11 GMT From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: kern/5481: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined Message-ID: <199801112302.XAA17385@dragon.nuxi.com> Resent-Message-ID: <199801112310.PAA16119@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 5481 >Category: kern >Synopsis: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jan 11 15:10:01 PST 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: David O'Brien >Organization: The FreeBSD Project >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386 >Environment: FBSD boot disk is sd0, but I have wd0 and wd1's installed. >Description: if you uncomment the definition for BOOT_HD_BIAS in sys/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/Makefile and then make, you get dd if=boot.nohdr of=boot2 bs=512 skip=1 14+1 records in 14+1 records out 7200 bytes transferred in 0.001314 secs (5479269 bytes/sec) boot2 is too big *** Error code 2 Obvisouly this isn't so serious now that we have /boot.config, but I liked hard coding this into the boot blocks so I don't have to worry about the existance of this file. >How-To-Repeat: obvious >Fix: help, bde :-) >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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