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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti+fossil, the boot process, and 48-bit lba
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:57:55 +0100
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>>and head-scratching, it turns out that 9load doesn't know how
	...
>>As a result, when boot tries to start venti and venti
>>tries to find the arenas, it all goes to hell.

how does 9load cause that to happen?
the thing that starts venti is a normal kernel, which
should handle 48-bit LBA.  does 9load (not knowing
about them) leave the ATA in a state where the kernel
can't use 48-bits either?

i can see that 9load not knowing 48-bit addressing wouldn't
be able to see boot/9fat partitions beyond a certain point,
or perhaps with the right geometry.