Can't boot with a new install

[Yousef Raffah]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 13:49 +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote:
> > # fdisk /dev/ad0
> > ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
> > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> > cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
> >
> > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> > cylinders 155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
> >
> > Media sector size is 512
> > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> > Information from DOS bootblock is:
> > The data for partition 1 is:
> > sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
> >         start 63, size 156296322 (76316 Meg), flag 80 (active)
> >                 beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
> >                 end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
> > The data for partition 2 is:
> > <UNUSED>
> > The data for partition 3 is:
> > <UNUSED>
> > The data for partition 4 is:
> > <UNUSED>
> 
> The following URL may be of help:
> 
>   http://www.freebsd.org/doc/faq/install.html#GEOMETRY
> 
That helped a lot, thank you very much, I just created a small DOS
partition and recreated the FreeBSD slices and it all went fine. I can
boot fine now :)


Sincerely,
Yousef Raffah
Senior Systems Administrator
SSIS - The Savola Group

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