Comments on: Try installing DragonFly again https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2014/06/24/try-installing-dragonfly-again/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:50:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Justin Sherrill https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2014/06/24/try-installing-dragonfly-again/comment-page-1/#comment-158104 Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:50:44 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=14247#comment-158104 The actual error was from when Hammer boot support was added – it looks in the various places there could be records, or duplicates of those records, which is assumed to be at 0, 2, 4, and 6G into the disk, if I am remembering correctly.

The error comes from some BIOS not being able to handle it when you try to access a disk value that is beyond the actual value of the disk. So, it’s touching Hammer files because it’s part of checking for Hammer – and Hammer 2 boot support has already been built in.

]]> By: Anonymous https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2014/06/24/try-installing-dragonfly-again/comment-page-1/#comment-157747 Thu, 26 Jun 2014 05:21:45 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=14247#comment-157747 Pardon me for asking what could be a stupid question, but that commit touched a file called hammer2.c , and if hammer2 isn’t in production yet for installing as a default , why would it affect installing from a USB drive?

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