Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit?

[rnordier]

Kent Stewart wrote:

> Mike Smith wrote:
> > 
> > > So.. if I read you right, booting correctly for > 1024 cylinders works
> > > if boot0 knows about it.  Isn't boot0 the one in the MBR, not in the fbsd
> > > slice?  Does this mean that boot1 and boot2 should work just fine if they
> > > are loaded by another kind of MBR loader (say, Grub), and they find out
> > > that they are placed beyond the 1023th cylinder?
> > 
> > This should work, yes.
> 
> I tried this with a boot1 from FreeBSD 4.4-rc and get a BTX error. I
> had to go back to the boot1 from 4.3 before I could boot.
 
That could be serious.  Can you post a brief description of your
hardware, together with the BTX register dump if possible?  boot1 was
changed to address some problems with certain hardware, so it is
important to know if other incompatibilities have been introduced.

--
Robert Nordier

To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message