From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] venti+fossil, the boot process, and 48-bit lba
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:06:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ACNNC-0001Nx-5z@t40.swtch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:58:56 BST." <c64301e34259a2668840e6a0aa79ffe5@caldo.demon.co.uk>
> 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.
russ
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-22 18:06 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 [this message]
2003-10-22 20:07 ` vdharani
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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