Date: Thu, 14 Sep 95 15:59 MET DST From: Marcus.John@wiesbaden.netsurf.de To: bde@zeta.org.au Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Funny fdisk? Message-ID: <m0stEpa-0001IgC@vistec.com>
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Bruce Evans wrote: >Does fdisk report the proper information if you boot from wd0? Yes. >`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 :-). But it is just the other way round. fdisk is wrong, but UFS mount correctly and even swapon works without destroying the disks contents. Thanks! Marcus.John@wiesbaden.netsurf.de
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