Rudolf Cejka wrote (2003/11/11):
And almost at the same time, I'm looking at the last change to
boot0.s 1.26, if there is forgotten TBL1SZ update, or not :o)))
Just for record: I have submitted patch solving problems with
bad information about partitions as kern/59256 right now.
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Rudolf
I've been busy installing various OSes on a spare disk in order to try
to reproduce some of fefe's benchmarks. In the process, I've noticed
a couple of bogons in boot0 and disklabel:
- disklabel -B trashes the partition table:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=20
# fdisk -i ad0
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
This probably happens because fdisk silently allows the user to
create a partition that overlaps the partition table. Arguably
pilot error, but very confusing at the time, and fdisk should warn
about it.
...and here's the patch.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 09:36:14 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) wrote:
- boot0 off-by-one error:
Now, boot0 identifies my FreeBSD partitions as BSD instead of
FreeBSD. It also identifies my Debian partition (type 0x83) as
BSD instead of Linux and my Debian swap
Alexander Leidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you have a second disk in the system? Are you able to switch to the
second disk with boot0? I have a current system where I'm not able to
switch to the second disk (master on secondary ata channel).
Yes, I can switch back and forth between the
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:
I've been busy installing various OSes on a spare disk in order to try
to reproduce some of fefe's benchmarks. In the process, I've noticed
a couple of bogons in boot0 and disklabel:
- disklabel -B trashes the partition table:
Dag-ErlingSm?rgrav wrote (2003/11/11):
- boot0 off-by-one error:
The OS table in boot0.s is as follows:
.byte os_misc-. # Unknown
...
.byte os_bsd-. # NetBSD
Now, boot0 identifies my FreeBSD partitions as BSD instead of
