From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 20 7:40:40 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 07:40:38 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from amjers03.am.kwe.com (unknown [202.19.125.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A346237B400 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:40:37 -0800 (PST) Received: FROM GLOBAL73CSFBAI BY amjers03.am.kwe.com ; Wed Dec 20 10:39:41 2000 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Faisal Ali" To: "'Mike Smith'" Cc: Subject: RE: Workaround for boot problems Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:44:16 -0500 Message-ID: <002001c06a9b$b6a844d0$c715020a@GLOBAL73CSFBAI> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-reply-to: <200012192343.eBJNhBQ14066@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The advice was to use 2GB geometry which I did. It is possible their was garbage on the disk although its highly unlikely when a new logical volume is created. Thanks for help Faisal Ali -----Original Message----- From: Mike Smith [mailto:msmith@freebsd.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 6:43 PM To: faisal.ali@gsxxi.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Workaround for boot problems > I have a Mylex DAC960PL card on which FreeBSD 4.2 Release did not boot. I > checked the "Trouble.txt" file for suggestion to fix the problem. The advise > did not help. Which advice in particular? I assume that you already had the adapter set to 2GB mode? You should also have verified that the drive geometry detected by sysinstall was correct (???/128/32); I suspect in your case that this was the problem. > I don't know why but I assume the incorrect drive geometry is detected by > the FDISK editor. That's correct; if there's garbage on the disk, or just bad geometry information, sysinstall gets it wrong. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message