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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: darrylo@sr.hp.com, fenner@parc.xerox.com
Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems..
Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 15:29:15 PDT
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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