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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>,
        "Chris Csanady" <ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu>,
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Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 96 12:23:16 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:48:10 PDT
From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
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In message <4314.843506596@critter.tfs.com> you write:
>makes more sense now ?

I know that the BIOS can't read tracks past 1023.  The question is,
when your whole disk is 1023 cylinders, and your a partition is
in cylinders 0-34, why would the boot blocks print this message?
(See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/search.cgi?words=1023+%28BIOS+limit%29&source=freebsd-questions&source=freebsd-bugs&source=freebsd-hackers&source=freebsd-hardware&max=25&docnum=4)

I'm planning to update fsdb to be able to print out all the data
blocks that a file is in, which will presumably help diagnose why the
bootblocks will fail to boot a particular file.

  Bill