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To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
cc: darrylo@sr.hp.com, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 1996 15:29:15 PDT."
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 08:14:40 +0200
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.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...

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