Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 23:55:12 -0400 From: "Joe Joplin" <joejop@triad.rr.com> To: "Pietralla, Siegfried P" <siegfried.pietralla@eds.com>, "Ian Dowse" <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: yet another boot problem Message-ID: <023a01c21b32$f0ddfcf0$2201a8c0@2kpro2> References: <200206240244.aa47440@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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How do you do this, if you can't boot? Joe Subject: Re: yet another boot problem > A beep when you press an F-key usually means that boot0 is unable > to read the boot sector for the partition you selected, either > because the geometry settings in the fdisk partition table don't > match the BIOS, or because the cylinder number is greater than 1023. > Try telling boot0 to use packet mode by running: > > boot0cfg -v -o packet /dev/ad3 > > This will cause boot0 to ignore the geometry and use LBA addressing > instead. > > Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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