In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Nordier writes:
>> >What fails? Can you be more specific? How recent are your boot1/boot2
>> >blocks? I would be inclined to dd at least 8k over the front of the
>> >disk myself, but I don't think that's relevant in your case.
>>
>> Disk error #1 while trying to load boot/loader. I think the bios
>> in this case trust the 50000 in the length field of the mbr.
>
>Any better luck after enabling "LBA access" in boot1 as a build
>option (added back a few weeks ago), or does the BIOS not support
>this?
>
>BTW: Is this a genuine hard drive, or some form of disk-on-a-chip?
>I seem to recall the BIOS geometry in some cases uses a small number
>of sectors per track, which may push part of the 'a' partition
>beyond the 1023 CHS limit.
I've seen this on both flash disks and real disks. The flash disks
have geometries which put them firmly inside 1023 cyls:
fla0 maddr 0xd0000 msize 8192 on isa
fla0: <M-Systems DiskOnChip 40MB>
fla0: 39.1MB (80144 sectors), 1001 cyls, 16 heads, 5 S/T, 512 B/S
fla1 maddr 0xd2000 msize 8192 on isa
fla1: <M-Systems DiskOnChip 72MB>
fla1: 70.5MB (144320 sectors), 1002 cyls, 16 heads, 9 S/T, 512 B/S
fla2 maddr 0xd4000 msize 8192 on isa
fla2: <M-Systems DiskOnChip 40MB>
fla2: 39.1MB (80144 sectors), 1001 cyls, 16 heads, 5 S/T, 512 B/S
fla3 maddr 0xd6000 msize 8192 on isa
fla3: <M-Systems DiskOnChip 144MB>
fla3: 141.0MB (288832 sectors), 1002 cyls, 16 heads, 18 S/T, 512 B/S
fla4 maddr 0xd8000 msize 8192 on isa
fla4: <M-Systems DiskOnChip 8MB>
fla4: 7.8MB (15920 sectors), 995 cyls, 16 heads, 1 S/T, 512 B/S
So cyl 1024 should not even enter in the equation...
My real beef here is not with the boot failure but with the fact that our
command line tools stink when I bring in a new blank disk...
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