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Date:      Sat, 18 Aug 2001 16:06:22 -0700
From:      "Mike Burgett" <mike@zentek.com>
To:        "Mike Burgett" <mburgett@awen.com>, "Mike Smith" <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: boot crash after hardware change.
Message-ID:  <200108182302.QAA06249@fw.zentek.com>
In-Reply-To: <200108181954.f7IJsTS00862@mass.dis.org>

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On Sat, 18 Aug 2001 12:54:29 -0700, Mike Smith wrote:

>BIOS crash.  I bet you configured your disk "dangerously dedicated" when 
>you installed.

Hmm... I hung the disk on the sister system, and here's what fdisk
reports:

******* Working on device /dev/da3 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1496 heads=142 sectors/track=42 (5964 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=1496 heads=142 sectors/track=42 (5964 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 0, size 8925000 (4357 Meg), flag 80 (active)
        beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0;
        end: cyl 555/ sector 42/ head 141
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>

I thought if it was DD, it wouldn't have the 4 partition entries...

Is this right?

I'm dumping the disks partitions to files on the system it's hung off
of now, and can re-fdisk, re-label, newfs everything, and restore, but
I'd hate to do that if its not the problem...

Thanks,
Mike




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