From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 15 14:27:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id OAA01485 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:27:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from empire.hw.nl (empire.hw.nl [194.151.67.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id OAA01480 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 14:27:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from orac.hw.nl (orac.hw.nl [192.168.2.7]) by empire.hw.nl (8.8.4/1.00) with SMTP id XAA03152; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 23:26:09 +0100 (MET) Received: by orac.hw.nl id XAA24550; Wed, 15 Jan 1997 23:26:27 +0100 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 23:26:27 +0100 From: peter@hw.nl (Peter Korsten) To: ping@stepnet.com (Ping Mai) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAQ Section 2.15... References: <199701151539.HAA05100@tibet.stepnet.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.57 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199701151539.HAA05100@tibet.stepnet.com>; from Ping Mai on Jan 15, 1997 07:39:24 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ping Mai shared with us: > > I have a disk with 4 slices. bsd is placed > on the 4th slice. I maded it with > "disklabel -w -r -B sd0s4 auto". I tried booteasy and > os-bs. Neither can boot sd0s4. os-bs keeps complaining > that ther's no operating system to boot from. I even > tried copying the boot blocks from /usr/mdec/boot{1,2}. > Didn't make a diff. The only way I can get into bsd > is copying the kernel to a dos disk and doing a > "fbsdboot -rD kernel". What to do? Please help? > > fdisk and disklabel: > > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 2097152, size 2140160 (1045 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255; > end: cyl 1023/ sector 32/ head 63 I could be mistaken here, but shouldn't bootable partitions be within the 1 Gb range? Your 4th partition is just outside that. - Peter -- Peter Korsten | peter@hw.nl | http://www.hw.nl/~peter/ Haesenbos, Wetzels & Van der Heijden Multimedia Support 'Never EVER mess with a jumper you don't know about, even if it's labeled "sex and free beer".' -Dave Haynie, Amiga developer