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 ? -- 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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