Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:14:40 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: darrylo@sr.hp.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. Message-ID: <4878.843545680@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 1996 15:29:15 PDT." <96Sep23.152918pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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In message <96Sep23.152918pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>, Bill Fenner writ es: >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) This geometry is certainly bogus, sec/track cannot be more than 63... This looks like the bogus geometry extracted from a scsi-drive. It used to be that "boot -v" would show you, but I don't think it does nowadays... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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