Subject: Re: BIOS / pfdisk / sysinst glitches ?
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: None <rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/21/1998 21:32:02
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:

> rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu writes:
> > 
> > HEADS UP!! IMPORTANT!! READ THIS!!  and OPINIONS SOLICITED!!
> > HEADS UP!! IMPORTANT!! READ THIS!!  and OPINIONS SOLICITED!!
> > 
> > I did battle with sysinst recently, setting up a few new machines with
> > a preexisting win 95 partition.  I blew away win 95 and the other MBR
> > parititions.  This happens IF YOU SET THE BIOS GEOMETRY.  DO NOT SET
> > THE BIOS GEOMETRY using a existing install floppy or -current, unless
> > you want the whole disk for NetBSD.  I will commit the fix for this on
> > Friday to -current.  NOTE: SET BIOS GEOMETRY is an menu that you can
> > skip, so skip it if you have other OSs on your disk.
> 
> Was this in -current, or in 1.3, or in 1.3.2?
This bug was in all x86 systems until this morning.  Tonights sup will fix
it.