Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:10:37 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD won't boot any more. HELP! Message-ID: <20020810101037.GF90130@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <20020809193957.C25445D06@ptavv.es.net> References: <20020809193957.C25445D06@ptavv.es.net>
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On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:39:57PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> One random thought is that my boot partition is well beyond cylinder
> 1023. I know that this limit has been worked around in some way, but
> could I have messed it up when I re-wrote the boot block? Is there
> some other magic I need.
boot0cfg -o packet /dev/ad0
perhaps. However, take not of the warnings in the boot0cfg man page:
BUGS
Use of the `packet' option may cause `boot0' to fail, depending on the
nature of BIOS support.
As it used to work, I guess you do have a compatible BIOS. If,
however, it all goes horribly wrong you would have to boot up a fixit
disk to clean up the mess.
Cheers,
Matthew
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