On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 02:24:13PM -0500, Gordon Turner wrote:
| --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--
I'm not sure, but it looks like you missed this part, may be of
significance :
> If this error occurs during an LBA boot (no `;' after
> ``Loading''), then a CHS boot may succeed. To do this, you
> should reboot, then hold down either Shift key before biosboot
> starts. You should see a `!' before ``Loading'' as confirmation
> that your override was accepted.
| CYLINDERS=1006
| HEADS=16
| SECTORSPERTRACK=63
|
| 1. Is there any way of getting more diagonstic information? Turning kernel
logging on?
biosboot(8) runs before the kernel is loaded, so no luck there.
| 2. Is this consistent with getting the CHS geometry of the compact flash
card wrong?
Try the workaround from the manpage, post back if that makes a
difference.
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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