From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Nielsen To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] venti+fossil, the boot process, and 48-bit lba Message-ID: <20031027074813.GJ834@cassie.foobarbaz.net> References: <20031022172953.GA834@cassie.foobarbaz.net> <20031022195940.GD834@cassie.foobarbaz.net> <20031023021628.GH834@cassie.foobarbaz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031023021628.GH834@cassie.foobarbaz.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 23:48:13 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 79b9d5b8-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:16:28PM -0700, Christopher Nielsen wrote: > That didn't work. It shut up 9load about the partitions, but > venti still couldn't open the partition. > > Unless someone has a better idea, I'm going to proceed with > incorporating fdisk and prep into /boot and teach boot to > use them to sniff out the partitions. Everything is back in working order. However, the solution is a complete hack, specific to my configuration, and not worth sending in patches. I'll have a go at fixing it properly when I have the time, but that may not be before ron has a better solution replacing 9load. BTW, my idea of a proper solution is teaching 9load about 48-bit LBA. I like having the configuration info on the partition. As expected, it makes for much simpler management of the fileserver. Thanks to everyone that had suggestions. -- Christopher Nielsen "They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin