From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Sep 23 16:25:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA29900 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:25:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA29879 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:24:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <16465(3)>; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:24:24 PDT Received: from localhost by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177476>; Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:24:21 -0700 To: darrylo@sr.hp.com cc: Bill Fenner , freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 96 16:10:25 PDT." <199609232310.AA070570225@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 16:24:17 PDT From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <96Sep23.162421pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199609232310.AA070570225@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> you write: >reboot with -v I'll try this when I get home. Meanwhile, > fdisk sd1 > disklabel sd1 # fdisk sd1 ******* Working on device /dev/rsd1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=3658 heads=6 sectors/track=96 (576 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=3658 heads=6 sectors/track=96 (576 blks/cyl) Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 0 is: The data for partition 1 is: The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 50000 (24 Meg), flag 80 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255 # disklabel sd1 # /dev/rsd1c: type: SCSI disk: sd1s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 28 tracks/cylinder: 43 sectors/cylinder: 1204 cylinders: 1753 sectors/unit: 2110812 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 40960 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 34*) b: 131072 40960 swap # (Cyl. 34*- 142*) c: 2110812 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1753*) e: 163840 172032 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 142*- 278*) f: 1774940 335872 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 278*- 1753*) Bill