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From: fcawth@squid.umd.edu (Fred Cawthorne)
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Subject: Re: Can't boot a new 2.0.5A system
To: fcawth@squid.umd.edu (Fred Cawthorne)
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 95 13:35:11 EDT
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> The new install got the wrong geometry even when I had FreeBSD 2.0 on
> the entire disk...  Perhaps there was a problem with the stuff that 
> an old fdisk created???  I don't remember if I ever installed with an NCR
> controller before.  (I used to have an Adaptec 1542CF on here...)
> So, maybe my NCR scsi bios is messing things up???
> Are you guys sure that the user setting of the geometry thing (i.e. G in
> the fdisk screen) is working properly??
> 
> Fred.
> 
> 
Hmmm.  I guess there was something funny going on with translation.  
I just tried again with a small dos partition on the disk and it appears
to boot properly.  Anyway, the method of making a dos partition on the
disk so that fdisk gets the geometry seems to work fine...
Perhaps I was doing something wrong when I tried this before...

Fred.