I think this is a BIOS issue. I don't think any BIOS will let you
boot from arbitrarily-formatted floppies :)
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 08:24:05PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear sirs
>
> I have been developing many kinds of 1FD-applications(
> http://www.ryuchi.org/~iloved ) with FreeBSD2.2.8.
>
> 1FD-SQUID, 1FD-SAMBA, etc.
>
> Recently, I can use fd0.1720( 21 Sectors/track, 82 track), not fd0.1440(18
> Sectors/track, 80 track).
>
> But, fd0.1720 cannot be bootable.
>
> I can see "boot: " message on screen, but it cannot load kernel because boot2
> cannot access fd0.1720.
>
> I change RA_SECTORS from 18 to 21 in /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/disk.c. But, it
> could not boot.
>
> Does anyone know how to let fd0.1720 be bootable?
>
> Sincerely
> Y.NISHIMURA
>
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