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From: <vdharani@infernopark.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti+fossil, the boot process, and 48-bit lba
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:07:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <58235.135.214.150.100.1066853226.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1ACNNC-0001Nx-5z@t40.swtch.com>

hi,

>> you could configure fdisk and prep into /boot, and have boot use them,
>> but perhaps the easiest change for you might be to stop 9load from
>> checking the values (temporarily) until something better is done.
>
> yes, this.  change 9load so that if the max disk address is 2^28,
> it doesn't sanity check the upper bounds in the partition table.

is someone changing 9load source centrally also? that way it would be
useful for other similar instances as well.

and, may be, if reqd, the sanity check could be changed from display-error-
and-exit to warn-and-proceed.

thanks
dharani





  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-22 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-22 15:43 Christopher Nielsen
2003-10-22 15:57 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-22 17:10   ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-10-22 17:29   ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-10-22 17:58     ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-22 18:06       ` Russ Cox
2003-10-22 20:07         ` vdharani [this message]
2003-10-22 19:59       ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-10-23  2:16         ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-10-24  4:32           ` [9fans] trouble down t'labs George Michaelson
2003-10-27  7:48           ` [9fans] venti+fossil, the boot process, and 48-bit lba Christopher Nielsen
2003-10-22 16:08 ` ron minnich

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