At 02:47 PM 8/27/2005, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
Glenn Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I doubt there's nothing wrong with the MBR per se, but if it's
looking in the wrong place for the third stage loader
> you'll see exactly the problem you have.
Where "it's" probably refers to "boot code", not to the MBR, which
doesn't look for anything except the confusingly-named "first-stage"
boot loader (same as /boot/boot1) in the first sector of your 4th
primary partition. Then that loads the second-stage boot loader (same
as /boot/boot2) which gives the "boot:" prompt after failing to run
/boot/loader and failing to run a kernel.
It seems that finding boot1 and boot2 is possible with bad geometry,
but finding /boot/loader or the kernel is not. ???
The restriction on where stage 2 finds the stage 3 loader,
/boot/loader, is that it must be on the 'a' partition. Something like:
/dev/ad0s1a
If it's somewhere else, like /dev/ad0s1e, then you'll land at the
boot: prompt every time.
-Glenn
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