On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 17:31:54 +0100, Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 11:33:29AM -0500, Gordon Turner wrote:
> | I have a compact flash card that is giving an ERR R on boot. I have
> looked
> at
> | the boot (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html), which told me that my
> PBR
> was
> | most likely messed. Unfortunately I am still at a loss as to how I
> screwed
> up.
>
> Check out the biosboot(8) manpage. This describes all possible error
> conditions from the biosboot program.
Absolutely, which includes:
--SNIP from biosboot--
When biosboot receives control from either the BIOS or the master boot
record (MBR) it will print the message:
Loading
followed by a dot for every filesystem block it attempts to load. If
/boot is loaded successfully, biosboot will put the cursor on the next
line just before transferring control to the newly-loaded program.
--SNIP from biosboot--
--SNIP from biosboot--
ERR R Read error. The BIOS returned an error indication when biosboot
attempted to read a disk sector. This might be any media error,
including bad sectors (common on floppy disks), and invalid sec-
tors (can occur with bad geometry translations).
--SNIP from biosboot--
Which of course is what I am seeing.
Based on pluging the cf card in the soekris, I get what I believe to be the
correct geometry, which is confirmed by disklabel when the card is in the cf
reader.
CYLINDERS=1006
HEADS=16
SECTORSPERTRACK=63
1. Is there any way of getting more diagonstic information? Turning kernel
logging on?
2. Is this consistent with getting the CHS geometry of the compact flash card
wrong?
Thanks!
Gord Turner.
