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Date:      Fri, 27 Sep 1996 22:54:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Booteasy cannot boot from wd0 (first IDE disk)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.960927225342.1519D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960926221000.177A-100000@foo.netvoyage.net>

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On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote:

> > This is a sure sign of a geometry problem on your first disk.  Try
> > reinstalling, this time make a small DOS partition, then delete it in the
> > fdisk editor.
> 
> Argh.  Irritating, but unsurprising.  Is there any way to change the
> geometry on the first disk without a reinstall?  And is there any way to
> get the geometry correct without DOS?
> 
> While I can reinstall pretty easily, I'd just as soon not if there's any
> other way to tell the drive about the correct drive geometry.  Especially
> since I'm not sure I have real easy access to DOS. 

Not that I'm aware of offhand (other than backing it up with dump, re-
disklabel and newfs, then restore it)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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