Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:26:59 +0300 From: Yousef Raffah <yraffah@savola.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot with a new install Message-ID: <1143548819.8235.5.camel@Tuxntosh.savola.com> In-Reply-To: <84dead720603280019x20970e5ap22e64563d66847@mail.gmail.com> References: <4931244.1143477563764.JavaMail.oracle@ocs.savola.com> <84dead720603271724o1d19109chebd2d2299691d5e9@mail.gmail.com> <1143526635.4925.233.camel@Tuxntosh.savola.com> <1143531010.4924.254.camel@Tuxntosh.savola.com> <84dead720603280019x20970e5ap22e64563d66847@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:49 +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > # fdisk /dev/ad0 > > ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* > > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > > cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > > cylinders 155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > > > Media sector size is 512 > > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > > Information from DOS bootblock is: > > The data for partition 1 is: > > sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > > start 63, size 156296322 (76316 Meg), flag 80 (active) > > beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; > > end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 > > The data for partition 2 is: > > <UNUSED> > > The data for partition 3 is: > > <UNUSED> > > The data for partition 4 is: > > <UNUSED> > > The following URL may be of help: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/install.html#GEOMETRY > That helped a lot, thank you very much, I just created a small DOS partition and recreated the FreeBSD slices and it all went fine. I can boot fine now :) Sincerely, Yousef Raffah Senior Systems Administrator SSIS - The Savola Group -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at getfirefox.com yousef.raffah.com [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEKSuTH9IXMb4e6CMRAnjEAJ9xYxx9RFBNfMGIR/8K2NKm/7r5PQCbBL1H yg4DsNbT4Ybr4l9cN5lROaI= =iGeZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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