Subject: Re: Problems booting from SCSI disk
To: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
From: Dominic J Hulewicz <dom@inta.net>
List: tech-install
Date: 01/27/1998 15:53:57
In a previous message, Frank van der Linden wrote:
: On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 01:14:24PM +0000, Dominic J Hulewicz wrote:
: > pfdisk> # Partition table on device: 0
: > geometry 1021 64 32 (cyls heads sectors)
[...]
: And you said that NetBSD's fdisk reports:
:
: cylinders=1037 heads=32 sectors/track=63
:
: There's the problem then. The install messes up the geometry, which
: also seems to result in the partition starting at the very start of
: the disk, not one track above that.
:
: The best thing you could do is to reinstall, and to specify the
: cyl: 1021, heads: 64, sectors: 32 geometry explicitly yourself.
: I.e. when sysinst asks if the geometry is OK, choose 'no', and
: enter the 1021,64,32 values. After that it should be ok.
Cheers Frank, that's what I did and it now boots ok.
Many thanks to everyone that helped.
Regards,
Dom.
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