Subject: Re: port-i386/22096: i386 bootblocks are incompatible with older mainboards
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: current-users
Date: 07/11/2003 19:48:53
In article <20030711102625.C1591@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>,
	David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
> Have you checked that the other ones still dont work?

No, but I don't see the point in trying it because I rewrote them before
and it didn't fix the problem.

> My best guess is that your windows partition is at the start of the
> disk, and the netbsd one further down.

Yes, that's the case.

> The netbsd code at the start of the partition will read the disk
> using the CHS value for the partition start (provided it is below 8GB).
> If one system used a CHS mapping other than 63/255/1023 then it would
> reference the wrong sectors.

But why do the 1.6.1_STABLE bootblocks work?

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/