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Date:      Thu, 1 Jun 1995 16:35:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cant boot a new 2.0.5A system
Message-ID:  <199506012335.QAA00759@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199506012321.QAA11789@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Charles Henrich" at Jun 1, 95 07:21:36 pm

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> >     I don't know how you other folks did it, but I can't boot a
> > freshly installed 2.0.5A disk.  I go through all the steps, choosing
> > logical choices, but then when it goes to reboot, I get "Missing
> > operating system".
> 
> I've been having similar problems big time.  It appears that the partitioning
> tools are looking at the drive geometry ONLY, but newfs is using the (possibly)
> translated geometries that the BIOS is reporting.  This is causing me bigtime
> problems :(

It is 100% paramount for success that you enter the bios-geometry correct.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent'
=> 'no rude people are relevant'



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