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 -- Aren't you using Firefox? Get it at getfirefox.com yousef.raffah.com
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