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Date:      Thu, 19 Sep 2002 00:16:15 +0200
From:      Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: recovering ufs after fat games
Message-ID:  <20020919001615.A606@gicco.cablecom.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20020918211315.61F085D04@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 02:13:15PM -0700
References:  <200209180134.g8I1YNpZ069717@zapper.org> <20020918211315.61F085D04@ptavv.es.net>

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  On Sep 18 at 14:13, Kevin Oberman spoke:

> > From: Daemon <daemon@ircee.com>

> >   If I choose "F4" I get nothing but a beep.  If I choose "F3" it
> >   boots into windows.  Any suggestions?
> 
> Is this a big disk? If the FreeBSD partition starts at a cylinder >
> 1023, this is what you  will see.
> 
> If this is the case, try:
> boot0cfg -o packet -B ad0 (or whatever your boot disk is).

Probably `-o packet' is what also would had helped in my case.
My FreeBSD partition also is located beyond the 1023rd cylinder.
But I had overlooked the packet option in the manpage.
Thanks.

-Hanspeter

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