Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 21:45:50 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. Message-ID: <4431.843507950@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:23:31 PDT." <96Sep23.122335pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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In message <96Sep23.122335pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>, Bill Fenner writ es: >>So does this mean you'll look at the boot code? ;-) > >Unfortunately, no. But I'll try to replicate it and then submit a detailed >PR so that we have something to remind us about the problem... I have been very far down this road a couple of times, and unless somebody has messed up our bootblocks, this invariably has been a valid message. Remember that FreeBSD may not get the Geometry right all the time, so just because disklabel says that your root partition is below 1024 doesn't actually guarantee that is so... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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