From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 27 22:54:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA22003 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 22:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA21977 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 22:54:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA01544; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 22:54:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 22:54:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Bryan K. Ogawa" cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booteasy cannot boot from wd0 (first IDE disk) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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