Re: port-i386/46247: 6.0 Beta boot fails on generic i386 architecture machine

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/46247; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/46247: 6.0 Beta boot fails on generic i386
 architecture machine
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:35:42 +0000

 On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 08:00:07AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
  >  > NetBSD MBR boot
  >  > NetBSD/x86 ffsv2 Primary Bootstrap
  >  > [silence]
  >  > 
  >  > The install complained once that the disk geometry could not be uniquely 
matched:
  >  > Bios: 1024/16/63
  >  > Prob: 1023/255/63
  >  
  > If it got as far as showing the ffs2 message then the chs values
  > won't matter.
 
 Are you sure of that? It is still doing I/O via the BIOS until the
 kernel gets started; while I'd expect it to be using LBA for that, the
 entire problem could be that it isn't.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost