On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:24:17AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :FWIW, FreeBSD 6.0 has no trouble booting from the machine I had this > :problem on. > > With the disks set to 'Auto' mode instead of 'Large' mode?
Yes. > There's no real difference between FreeBSD's slice table and ours. There > might be a difference with regards to the boot code using packet mode > or not (configurable with boot0cfg), but generally speaking we want to > use packet mode for the greatest compatibility with BIOSes. I also used different disks for both OSes; this may have had an effect. FreeBSD: 120 GB PATA Dragonfly: 74 GB SATA -- Francois Tigeot
