On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 09:17 +0300, Yousef Raffah wrote: > On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 06:54 +0530, Joseph Koshy wrote: > > yr> I see no reason why it can't boot of my drive after > > yr> installing FreeBSD, although this is not my first BSD > > > > Check if there is a disk geometry mismatch. Can you boot > > from a CD and access the hard-disk in 'fixit' mode? > > > Thank you Joseph for the reply and I would like to assure you that Yes, > I am able to boot from a CD and access the hard-disk in fixit mode by > mounting it under /mnt like this: > > # mount /dev/ad0s1 /mnt > > I can see all the folders in there were created yesterday, which is > correct! Any other hints to look for? > I just tried fdisk in the "Fixit" mode and thought you guys might know what exactly is going on.
# 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>
Sincerely,
Yousef Raffah
Senior Systems Administrator
SSIS - The Savola Group
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