cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/mbr Makefile mbr.s src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 Makefile boot1.S

[Peter Wemm]

On Thursday 02 December 2004 11:01 am, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> yar         2004-12-02 19:01:46 UTC
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_5)
>     sys/boot/i386/mbr    Makefile mbr.s
>     sys/boot/i386/boot2  Makefile boot1.S
>   Log:
>   MFC:    Try using packet mode by default, but provide a user
>           with a knob to disable it at build time--flag 0x80 for
>           BOOT_MBR_FLAGS and BOOT_BOOT1_FLAGS.  In fact, disabling
>           packet mode completely, even a test for it, should be
>           necessary only for old and brain-damaged machines FreeBSD 5
>           will hardly run on.

BTW: I tried to install 5.3-R on an empty 160G disk.  I created a single 
16G swap and the rest was a single fs (it was a test box).  boot2 could 
not find the loader.

Is this the same problem that you've fixed, or is this something else?  
Maybe having the rootfs start 16GB into the disk is a bad idea?
-- 
Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com
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