From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Sep 17 18:34:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA28970 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 18:34:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from friley216.res.iastate.edu (friley216.res.iastate.edu [129.186.78.216]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA28963 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 18:34:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from friley216.res.iastate.edu (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by friley216.res.iastate.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA01881 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:33:49 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199609180133.UAA01881@friley216.res.iastate.edu> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Very disturbing boot block problems.. Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 20:33:49 -0500 From: "Chris Csanady" Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Today I managed to place a new kernel in a seemingly bad area on my root partition. When I try to boot, It starts to load the kernel and then shortly after gives me one of these.. Error: C:1029 > 1023 (BIOS limit) As far as I can tell, this should not happen. I used the default geomerty that the FreeBSD install gave me (with no DOS compatibility. Anyone else ever experienced this? Anyway, thats about it.. laters, chris Here is the rest of the info the i thought might be relevant.. from dmesg.. (ncr0:0:0): "MICROP 4110-09NB_Nov18F TN0F" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0(ncr0:0:0): Direct-Access sd0(ncr0:0:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8. 1002MB (2053880 512 byte sectors) friley216:~# disklabel -R sd0 type: SCSI disk: sd0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 1002 sectors/unit: 2053880 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: 65536 1339392 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 654 - 685) b: 196608 1142784 swap # (Cyl. 558 - 653) c: 2053880 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1002*) e: 1142784 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 557) f: 32768 1404928 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 686 - 701) g: 616184 1437696 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 702 - 1002*)