From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 10 3:11:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D8737B400 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:11:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C44343E70 for ; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 03:11:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk ([IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7AAAgFo095670; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:10:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7AAAbOc095669; Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:10:37 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:10:37 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Kevin Oberman Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD won't boot any more. HELP! Message-ID: <20020810101037.GF90130@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <20020809193957.C25445D06@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020809193957.C25445D06@ptavv.es.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Tel: +44 1628 476614 Marlow Fax: +44 0870 0522645 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message