From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 23 20:54:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.triad.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC38237B401 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:54:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 2kpro2 ([24.28.234.101]) by mail5.triad.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sun, 23 Jun 2002 23:54:19 -0400 Message-ID: <023a01c21b32$f0ddfcf0$2201a8c0@2kpro2> From: "Joe Joplin" To: "Pietralla, Siegfried P" , "Ian Dowse" Cc: References: <200206240244.aa47440@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Subject: Re: yet another boot problem Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 23:55:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How do you do this, if you can't boot? Joe Subject: Re: yet another boot problem > A beep when you press an F-key usually means that boot0 is unable > to read the boot sector for the partition you selected, either > because the geometry settings in the fdisk partition table don't > match the BIOS, or because the cylinder number is greater than 1023. > Try telling boot0 to use packet mode by running: > > boot0cfg -v -o packet /dev/ad3 > > This will cause boot0 to ignore the geometry and use LBA addressing > instead. > > Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message