Subject: Re: Boot an IDE drive on port-i386 - pardon
To: Bruce Anderson <brucea@spacestar.net>
From: Martin Weber <Ephaeton@gmx.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/05/2001 13:36:41
> The above should have:
>
>     start 63, size 19807137 (9671 MB), flag 0x80
>         beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
>


I changed it accordingly. But something's strange here :

sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 0, size 19807200 (9671 MB), flag 0x80
        beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
        end: cylinder 1021, head 254, sector 63

phaeton# /usr/mdec/installboot -f /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rwd0a

phaeton# fdisk wd0
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1022 heads: 255 sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: <UNUSED>
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 0, size 16 (0 MB), flag 0x80
        beg: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  1
        end: cylinder    0, head   0, sector 16

I mean huh ? Am I drunk or what ? *scratch*

Martin Weber