Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 17:47:30 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.GUN.de> To: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> Cc: jkh@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [was/is: adding 2nd disk] little changes to sysinstall/Makefile Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.92.960324174323.459A-100000@knobel.gun.de> In-Reply-To: <199603241517.CAA07746@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, michael butler wrote: > Andreas Klemm writes: > > > Another thing is, I had to manually change the disk geometry > > to 255/63 scheme. My first disk is so large (4GB) so that > > 64/32 head/sector mapping isn't sufficiant. > > I didn't have any trouble with this .. 4101/64/32 worked just fine for a > Quantum Atlas on a 2842 although trying to boot off it caused -stable to > panic on a 1542B with pre >1gig BIOS/u-code support. Just a moment ;-) I'm running 3 OS's on my first hd, sd0. Windows 95, Windows NT and the last installed OS is FreeBSD. FreeBSD used then, of course, to be compatible with the rest, the 255/63 geometry. Now I wanted to add another harddisk and instead of looking for the default geometry on sd0, sysinstall choosed another, 64/32, which causes, when being used, that the controller BIOS prompts such warnings, as described, that prevents silent rebooting. You have to press ENTER, so that booting continues. And that is not comfortable. It would be fine, if the sysinstall utility would look for a suitable translation ... Andreas /// - -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ $$ Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de $$ pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<< -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMVV8o/MLpmkD/U+FAQE2tgQAxRtb2CzVcpnSdxwcSEPKlqtJ4HBGiKl6 Obj64GxYkBV/zA7dqmozEp8z2ZuptE762p61SHpkPzrU+O35o7xqxKVr+UjrSc6N 52ZmmUuauwtNTJc95bxrkyEzOmr+OtxwP/v8rJ0HVgMdO9KIivXuXOWrYlCpCiVn U5z3jVvTH98= =0Fpq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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