From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 28 12:27:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8639C16A429 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:27:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from heathrow.savoladns.com (heathrow.savoladns.com [212.12.174.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 983FB43D46 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:27:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yraffah@savola.com) Received: from heathrow.savoladns.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (heathrow.savoladns.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00615-08 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:27:41 +0300 (AST) Received: from Tuxntosh.savola.com (unknown [222.22.1.152]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by heathrow.savoladns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A9679584F for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:27:41 +0300 (AST) From: Yousef Raffah To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-oZN2zkwH4aRwVmt2EsBh" Organization: The Savola Group Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:26:59 +0300 Message-Id: <1143548819.8235.5.camel@Tuxntosh.savola.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2.1 Subject: Re: Can't boot with a new install X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: yraffah@savola.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:27:48 -0000 --=-oZN2zkwH4aRwVmt2EsBh Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3D155061 heads=3D16 sectors/track=3D63 (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=3D16 sectors/track=3D63 (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: > > > > The data for partition 3 is: > > > > The data for partition 4 is: > > >=20 > The following URL may be of help: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/install.html#GEOMETRY >=20 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 --=-oZN2zkwH4aRwVmt2EsBh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEKSuTH9IXMb4e6CMRAnjEAJ9xYxx9RFBNfMGIR/8K2NKm/7r5PQCbBL1H yg4DsNbT4Ybr4l9cN5lROaI= =iGeZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-oZN2zkwH4aRwVmt2EsBh--