Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 12:50:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Veggy Vinny) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, current@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bootstrap Message-ID: <199607241950.MAA06454@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960722130825.11997n-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> from "Veggy Vinny" at Jul 22, 96 01:11:02 pm
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> > Just tried it as disklabel -B wd0 but no luck... I'm using a > Western Digital WDAC31600 Caviar EIDE HD in LBA mode under -current and > in the Booteasy menu, when I hit F2 for FreeBSD, it just redisplays the > Booteasy menu again in a loop..... Is there a way I can fix this? > > Here is my fdisk wd0 output: > > root@bigbang [1:06pm][/usr/home/vince] >> fdisk wd0 > ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=3148 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=3148 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 0 is: > sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) > start 63, size 1031121 (503 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > end: cyl 785/ sector 63/ head 15 > The data for partition 1 is: ok, so let's do some arrithmetic.... with 63 x 16 geometry, block 1031184 is cyl 1024 sector 1 (first sector...) head 0 > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 1031184, size 2142000 (1045 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 785/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 785/ sector 63/ head 15 You are instructin the bios to look at cyl 785, sector 1 head 0 this misses by some 239 cylinders.. This assumes your bios can USE 1024 cyls.. most can't > The data for partition 2 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 3 is: > <UNUSED> > > Vince > >
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