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Date:      Mon, 24 Jun 2002 02:44:19 +0100
From:      Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        "Pietralla, Siegfried P" <siegfried.pietralla@eds.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: yet another boot problem 
Message-ID:   <200206240244.aa47440@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:45:05 %2B1000." <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC0AAD@AUSYM103> 

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In message <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC0AAD@AUSYM103>, "Pietralla, Siegf
ried P" writes:
>i'm having a problem getting my new install of 4.5 to boot. i've
>successfully run through the install onto ad3s3 and the boot manager for the
>second disk comes up ( and lets me go back to disk one so i know it's
>working ) but when i pick 'f3' it just beeps at me. i can boot into 4.3 in

A beep when you press an F-key usually means that boot0 is unable
to read the boot sector for the partition you selected, either
because the geometry settings in the fdisk partition table don't
match the BIOS, or because the cylinder number is greater than 1023.
Try telling boot0 to use packet mode by running:

	boot0cfg -v -o packet /dev/ad3

This will cause boot0 to ignore the geometry and use LBA addressing
instead.

Ian

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