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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:46:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No /boot/loader 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007200845250.99001-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007191718370.99468-100000@dt052n3e.san.rr.com>

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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Doug Barton wrote:

> > Disk geometry stuffup, or a 'real' disk error.
> 
> 	Well, I put my money on real disk error, but only because it
> vindicates my position that we shouldn't have switched to this new kind of
> disk in the first place. 
> 
> 	As for geometry, I tried both with and without "dangerously
> dedicated." My understanding was that if I used the dos partition entry
> method that we should be able to pick up the geometry correctly, but
> should I try the old dos fdisk trick as well? Also, would the adaptec
> setting to translate >1G be affecting this? It's on currently, which it is
> on all my other motherboards of similar vintage. 

Your boot disk is now *required* (or will be very very soon) to have a
proper slice table in -CURRENT; dedicated disks are deprecated in order to
get a smarter boot0.

Speaking of boot0 you might try using boot0cfg to force packet mode.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org



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