Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 15:29:15 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: darrylo@sr.hp.com, fenner@parc.xerox.com Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. Message-ID: <96Sep23.152918pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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Is there any easy way to determine the BIOS geometry, since that's the one that's so important for the boot blocks? fdisk tells me: ******* Working on device /dev/sd1 ******* 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) If I believe that, then my 40960 block a partition is under 72 cylinders long. Still no reason to believe that it might be over 1023 cylinders. Bill
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