Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 01:26:14 -0700 From: Joe Laughlin <laughlj@seattleu.edu> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compaq Deskpro EN booting problem Message-ID: <200209240126.14425.laughlj@seattleu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020924004857.N72880-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20020924004857.N72880-100000@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On Tuesday 24 September 2002 12:50 am, Doug White wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Pete French wrote: > > > It means it wasn't able to boot the partition since it couldn't fin= d > > > it. That usually occurs when the geometry changes to a layout that = is > > > not compatible with the BIOS. > > > > The BIOS on the RAID card on the one on the machine ? I am curious as= I > > didnt think I had changed the layout much - indeed the location of > > the partition I am trying to boot (the BSD one) hasnt changed at all. > > The system BIOS, or whatever handles Int13 boot stuff on your system. > > > PS: One other wierdness - doing a fresh install from the 4.6.2 CD gav= e me > > a few ssetups where booting complained about a mismatch between the > > sizeof the disc lable and the raw partition. I did not thinkthat it w= as > > possible to create an illegal disc layout from sysinstall ? > > Depends on how you make it. I think you can make stressed labels that e= mit > the warning but otherwise operate fine. Sticking to the auto defaults o= r > shouldn't get you a message. Odd. I have one of these, and I received the above message with the auto= =20 defaults. --=20 Disclaimer: Any resemblance between the above views and those of my employer, my terminal, or the view out my window are purely coincidental. Any resemblance between the above and my own views is non-deterministic. The question of the existence of views in the absence of anyone to hold them is left as an exercise for the reader. The question of the existence of the reader is left as an exercise for the second god coefficient. (A discussion of non-orthogonal, non-integral polytheism is beyond the scope of this article.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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