Re: Meaning of '+', '*' in disk: hd0+ hd1+* hd2*

[Alexander Salmin]

The '+' character after the "hd0" indicates that the BIOS has told /boot 
that this disk can be accessed via LBA. When doing a first-time install, 
you will sometimes see a '*' after a hard disk -- this indicates a disk 
that does not seem to have a valid OpenBSD disk label on it.


http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#Boot386


On 2015-11-30 19:28, edward wandasiewicz wrote:

If I have the following showing after a probe during biosboot

disk: hd0+ hd1+* h2*

What is the meaning of '+', '+*' and '*' next to each disk?

Edward.

Re: Meaning of '+', '*' in disk: hd0+ hd1+* hd2*

[edward wandasiewicz]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Alexander Salmin  wrote:
> The '+' character after the "hd0" indicates that the BIOS has told /boot
> that this disk can be accessed via LBA. When doing a first-time install, you
> will sometimes see a '*' after a hard disk -- this indicates a disk that
> does not seem to have a valid OpenBSD disk label on it.
>
> http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#Boot386

So hd2* means

- cannot be accessed via LBA
- no OpenBSD disklabel

Edward.
>
>
>
> On 2015-11-30 19:28, edward wandasiewicz wrote:
>>
>> If I have the following showing after a probe during biosboot
>>
>> disk: hd0+ hd1+* h2*
>>
>> What is the meaning of '+', '+*' and '*' next to each disk?
>>
>> Edward.

Re: Meaning of '+', '*' in disk: hd0+ hd1+* hd2*

[Ted Unangst]

edward wandasiewicz wrote:
> If I have the following showing after a probe during biosboot
> 
> disk: hd0+ hd1+* h2*
> 
> What is the meaning of '+', '+*' and '*' next to each disk?

+ means big disk support.

* means no openbsd disklabel. probably not the openbsd disk.

Meaning of '+', '*' in disk: hd0+ hd1+* hd2*

[edward wandasiewicz]

If I have the following showing after a probe during biosboot

disk: hd0+ hd1+* h2*

What is the meaning of '+', '+*' and '*' next to each disk?

Edward.

Re: Meaning of '+', '*' in disk: hd0+ hd1+* hd2*

[edward wandasiewicz]

Many thanks. I knew it was man paged / documented somewhere, just
couldn't find it.

Reason for asking?

I have a USB 3.0 device attached to a Chromebook Pixel 2015, and on
booting, SeaBIOS is recognising the same single USB drive twice, as
hd1+* and hd2*.

hd0 is the soldered SSD.

...Looks like two separate issues are occurring - the Philips drive is
being detected as both a high speed device and as a super speed
device.  I need a log with CONFIG_DEBUG_LEVEL=5 to diagnose that...

See http://www.seabios.org/pipermail/seabios/2015-November/010058.html

Edward.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Ted Unangst  wrote:
> edward wandasiewicz wrote:
>> If I have the following showing after a probe during biosboot
>>
>> disk: hd0+ hd1+* h2*
>>
>> What is the meaning of '+', '+*' and '*' next to each disk?
>
> + means big disk support.
>
> * means no openbsd disklabel. probably not the openbsd disk.