Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 10:55:44 +0200 (SAST) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk" Message-ID: <199908020855.KAA20495@m2-4-dbn.dial-up.net> In-Reply-To: <23040.933576593@critter.freebsd.dk> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Aug 2, 1999 08:49:53 am"
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> >What fails? Can you be more specific? How recent are your boot1/boot2 > >blocks? I would be inclined to dd at least 8k over the front of the > >disk myself, but I don't think that's relevant in your case. > > Disk error #1 while trying to load boot/loader. I think the bios > in this case trust the 50000 in the length field of the mbr. Any better luck after enabling "LBA access" in boot1 as a build option (added back a few weeks ago), or does the BIOS not support this? BTW: Is this a genuine hard drive, or some form of disk-on-a-chip? I seem to recall the BIOS geometry in some cases uses a small number of sectors per track, which may push part of the 'a' partition beyond the 1023 CHS limit. Anyway, if some debugging code would help here, let me know. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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