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Date:      Mon, 23 Sep 1996 22:01:23 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
Cc:        "Chris Csanady" <ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu>, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Very disturbing boot block problems.. 
Message-ID:  <4468.843508883@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Sep 1996 12:48:10 PDT." <96Sep23.124822pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> 

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In message <96Sep23.124822pdt.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>, Bill Fenner writ
es:
>In message <4314.843506596@critter.tfs.com> you write:
>>makes more sense now ?
>
>I know that the BIOS can't read tracks past 1023.  The question is,
>when your whole disk is 1023 cylinders, and your a partition is
>in cylinders 0-34, why would the boot blocks print this message?
>(See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/search.cgi?words=1023+%28BIOS+limit%29&source=
>freebsd-questions&source=freebsd-bugs&source=freebsd-hackers&source=freebsd-ha
>rdware&max=25&docnum=4)
>
>I'm planning to update fsdb to be able to print out all the data
>blocks that a file is in, which will presumably help diagnose why the
>bootblocks will fail to boot a particular file.

Have you tried booting a fixit and fsck'in the fs ?

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