Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 23:26:27 +0100 From: peter@hw.nl (Peter Korsten) To: ping@stepnet.com (Ping Mai) Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FAQ Section 2.15... Message-ID: <Mutt.19970115232627.peter@orac.hw.nl> In-Reply-To: <199701151539.HAA05100@tibet.stepnet.com>; from Ping Mai on Jan 15, 1997 07:39:24 -0800 References: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970114163114.9790C-100000@localhost> <199701151539.HAA05100@tibet.stepnet.com>
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Ping Mai shared with us:
>
> I have a disk with 4 slices. bsd is placed
> on the 4th slice. I maded it with
> "disklabel -w -r -B sd0s4 auto". I tried booteasy and
> os-bs. Neither can boot sd0s4. os-bs keeps complaining
> that ther's no operating system to boot from. I even
> tried copying the boot blocks from /usr/mdec/boot{1,2}.
> Didn't make a diff. The only way I can get into bsd
> is copying the kernel to a dos disk and doing a
> "fbsdboot -rD kernel". What to do? Please help?
>
> fdisk and disklabel:
>
> sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
> start 2097152, size 2140160 (1045 Meg), flag 0
> beg: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255;
> end: cyl 1023/ sector 32/ head 63
I could be mistaken here, but shouldn't bootable partitions be
within the 1 Gb range? Your 4th partition is just outside that.
- Peter
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