Re: bootable disk: how?

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:24:43PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:

> machdep.diskinfo: 80:17921834(1023/255/63),2  wd0 sd0:80
> 
> So wd0 appears, but without anything that looks like a BIOS disk number
> or geometry info.

That means that 'sd0' is bios disk 0x80 which the size/geometry 
specified, and that wd0 isn't known by the bios.

So you'll need to fiddle with the bios setup info in order to
make the 'wd0' disk known to the bios, and hence bootable.

It is possible to verify the presence of the boot code using
hexdump, and compare it to the on-disk files.

Is the disk connected to oneof the motherboard interfaces?
Or one on some add-on card?

        David

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