Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 00:57:09 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: rnordier@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The trouble with boot0 Message-ID: <3A26E955.C103AD88@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <XFMail.001130153231.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > > Look at the geometry in your BIOS setup and make sure that the geometry fdisk > uses matches the geometry in your BIOS exactly. If it doesn't, then you will > have to re-partition with the correct geometry I'm afraid. Or you can try > lying to your BIOS and telling it that your disk's geometry is 3037/88/63, but > I doubt that that will work... > I'll try that tomorrow at work. But, if this is a geometry problem, why can I boot from ad0s1 and ad0s2, but not from ad0s3? Typically the geometry problems prevent booting from any slice. In addition, boot0 is working in "packet mode". Thanks, -- JMA ****** Jose M. Alcaide // jose@we.lc.ehu.es // jmas@FreeBSD.org ****** ** "Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers" -- Leonard Brandwein ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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