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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!act.news.telstra.net!testpattern.telstra.net!usenet From: Wayne Farmer <wayne@telstra.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Have I Wrecked my boot block ? Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 11:25:47 +1100 Organization: Telstra Internet Lines: 33 Message-ID: <324DC20B.14AB@telstra.net> References: <324A070F.41C67EA6@telstra.net> Reply-To: wayne@telstra.net NNTP-Posting-Host: gonzo.telstra.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) Wayne Farmer wrote: > > 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 I have sorted it out - it appears that the FreeBSD 2.1.5 install could not detect disk geometry correctly. After 3 tries, I found that the ONLY satisfactory method was to manually change the disk geometry to EXACTLY the true hardware configuration. The install disk discovered another disk geometry (apart from what is shown above) but it did not work either. This may have been covered in another thread recently. Wayne