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From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
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To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: The trouble with boot0
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John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> Look at the geometry in your BIOS setup and make sure that the geometry fdisk
> uses matches the geometry in your BIOS exactly.  If it doesn't, then you will
> have to re-partition with the correct geometry I'm afraid.  Or you can try
> lying to your BIOS and telling it that your disk's geometry is 3037/88/63, but
> I doubt that that will work...
> 

I'll try that tomorrow at work. But, if this is a geometry problem,
why can I boot from ad0s1 and ad0s2, but not from ad0s3? Typically
the geometry problems prevent booting from any slice. In addition,
boot0 is working in "packet mode".

Thanks,
-- JMA
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