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Date:      Thu, 14 Sep 1995 15:48:45 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Marcus.John@wiesbaden.netsurf.de, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Funny fdisk?
Message-ID:  <199509140548.PAA11128@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I have a a strange problem when I boot up diskless in order to get the local
>disk (wd0) quiet.

>Even though the disk shows up correctly during boot, and I have done MAKEDEV,
>fdisk cannot report the proper information for the local disk. But funny I can
>mount the UFS4s on it and swapon to it.

>BTW the disk uses LBA!

Does fdisk report the proper information if you boot from wd0?

`netboot' doesn't initialize the boot parameters for BIOS drives.  This
makes a difference only if the command to ask the drive for its parameters
fails (it shouldn't fail for IDE or EIDE drives, but failures have been
reported).  If both the BIOS parameters and the drive parameters are
unavailable, then I would expect ufs to fail, but fdisk might work :-).

Bruce
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