Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 11:23:56 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI setup help !!! Message-ID: <Mutt.19970303112356.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <l03010d07af4020b3180f@[208.2.87.4]>; from Richard Wackerbarth on Mar 3, 1997 00:53:08 -0600 References: <l03010d07af4020b3180f@[208.2.87.4]>
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As Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > Everything seemed fine. It ask if I wanted to leave something to stay > compatible. > I said "yes". That's been your problem. :) No no, rather that you've got the geometry wrong. > However, when I try to reboot, I get told that I have no OS. > > I tried "disklabel -B sd0" and that did not help either. For sure, it wouldn't help. The only help short of a reinstall is to hand-tweak the fdisk table. Go through fdisk, pick the slice's starting block number, recompute the C/H/S number for whatever your BIOS thinks the geometry of the disk were, and enter this one. (It's probably an ``odd'' value, something starting ``in the middle'' of a track.) Enter some bogus but reasonable :) value for ending C/H/S, like 1023/63/255. This should get you going again. Keep Win95 or other poisoned systems away. The might consider this fdisk table invalid, and happily destroy `invalid' fdisk tables without warning or asking you. So in the end, you end up with an incompatible fdisk table the hard way :-), by also wasting more sectors than using ``DD'' mode in the first place... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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