Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 22:54:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booteasy cannot boot from wd0 (first IDE disk) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960927225342.1519D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960926221000.177A-100000@foo.netvoyage.net>
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On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote: > > This is a sure sign of a geometry problem on your first disk. Try > > reinstalling, this time make a small DOS partition, then delete it in the > > fdisk editor. > > Argh. Irritating, but unsurprising. Is there any way to change the > geometry on the first disk without a reinstall? And is there any way to > get the geometry correct without DOS? > > While I can reinstall pretty easily, I'd just as soon not if there's any > other way to tell the drive about the correct drive geometry. Especially > since I'm not sure I have real easy access to DOS. Not that I'm aware of offhand (other than backing it up with dump, re- disklabel and newfs, then restore it) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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