Re: Installation on Yet Another Netbook
On 18 Jan 2009, at 06:31, Matthew Dillon wrote: For some reason bestserv couldn't digest Christopher Rawnsley's posting. I am forwarding it below. The mime might not decode but it should be human readable. Thanks for catching that. Sephe is currently trying to help solve the issues I'm having off list so no harm done. :) -- Chris
Re: Installation on Yet Another Netbook
:I was thinking of changing boot0 and mbr. : :cheers : simon The physical images... the actual boot0 code, is really a binary image which is byte-for-byte compared in a couple of places, minus the options field. I forget exactly where. I think both fdisk and disklabel do checks. Maybe some other places. Don't change the code. But using boot0cfg is ok. I haven't looked at the boot0 code in a while but if the options are image data then those can probably be changed without messing up the compares. Having packet mode on by default for the .img file is a good idea. Matthew Dillon dil...@backplane.com
Re: Installation on Yet Another Netbook
:I have no clue what exactly packet mode is (boot loaders are all ugly :legacy stuff), but it it works on more machines than without packet :mode, I'd argue to turn it on in the img target by default and have an :option to generate a non-packet-mode image. : :Regards, : : Michael Packet mode is a BIOS extension for read and writing sectors on the disk that allows you to pass a logical sector number instead of a cylinder-head-sector triplet. Unfortunately, numerous BIOSes implement packet mode by translating the logical sector number back to CHS, then translating the CHS back to a logical sector number, which can cause a mess. So packet mode isn't always the best solution even when the BIOS supports it. Blame the BIOS writers. -Matt Matthew Dillon dil...@backplane.com
Re: Installation on Yet Another Netbook
On 15 Jan 2009, at 01:22, Christopher Rawnsley wrote: ... I tried a 'make img release' ... Just in case any one else falls in to this trap, Michael Neumann pointed out that it should be 'make img installer release' for the installer. I managed a manual install for now. I thought I'd run the disc layout past the lists as I would like to see what the consensus is: * My netbook has two flash drives internal to it. One is a ( fast ) 3.8GB and the other is a ( slower ) 7.7GB. * From what I have read, swap partitions on flash drives is bad news as it reduces the life of the disc. * Space is limited so I am thinking that having fewer partitions is a good idea. Using a pseudo disklabel structure my drive layout looks like: # Drive Mount Offset Size FS Type ad2s1a /0 * UFS ad3s1g /home0 * UFS+Softupdates where ad2 is the smaller but faster drive and ad3 the slower but bigger one. So my question is, could this drive structure be better? -- Chris
Re: Installation on Yet Another Netbook
Sascha Wildner schrieb: I agree with Simon that packet mode should be default, but it should not be done in the 'img' taget, but instead in the installer (and hammer.sh). Or in boot0cfg itself of course. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx
