From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 19 17:28:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E755E37B8D3; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:28:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA00539; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:28:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 17:28:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt052n3e.san.rr.com To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No /boot/loader In-Reply-To: <200007192348.QAA27911@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > No response to this on -stable. The actual error message is: > > > > Disk error 0x1 (lba=0x7004c) > > No /boot/loader > > Disk geometry stuffup, or a 'real' disk error. Well, I put my money on real disk error, but only because it vindicates my position that we shouldn't have switched to this new kind of disk in the first place. As for geometry, I tried both with and without "dangerously dedicated." My understanding was that if I used the dos partition entry method that we should be able to pick up the geometry correctly, but should I try the old dos fdisk trick as well? Also, would the adaptec setting to translate >1G be affecting this? It's on currently, which it is on all my other motherboards of similar vintage. Finally, the other thing that's confusing me is that the error message mentions "lba," which I thought was strictly an IDE thing. Just for grins I tried toggling LBA and CHS mode in the bios, but no joy. > > Also, on a whim I decided to try running /boot/loader. I got a > > It's not a FreeBSD executable (obviously enough), so you can't do this. Yeah... it was born out of frustration, since nothing else was working anyway. I was kind of surprised that it did anything at all, to be honest. Thanks for your response, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message