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From: Wayne Farmer <wayne@telstra.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Have I Wrecked my boot block ?
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:31:11 +1000
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I am not sure what I did wrong but I can not boot from a particular
machine without the boot floppy and manual intervention.
Have I done something wrong when I installed and can I get out of it
gracefully ?
fdisk wd0 shows the following :
******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1065456 heads=1 sectors/track=1 (1 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=1065456 heads=1 sectors/track=1 (1 blks/cyl)
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 0 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 0, size 1065456 (520 Meg), flag 80
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 1/ head 0
The data for partition 1 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
Is it the starting cylinder of 0 ?
Wayne