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. :)
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