Subject: Re: Amigs 4000/040 IDE boot: Floppy loop?
To: None <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Florian Stoehr <netbsd@wolfnode.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 01/11/2005 11:03:04
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:58:18AM +0100, Florian Stoehr wrote:
>
>> I have a NBS\001 partition starting at cylinder 10. Sectors/Cylinder is
>> 1008 -> Starting at block 1008*10 = 10080
>
> Is this the sectors/cylinder from the RDB? Nothing else is relevant for
> booting...
>
> Are sectors/track and heads/cylinder consistent with sectors/cylinder, and
> spares = 0?
>
>> Bootblocks support lacking here?
>
> The bootblock is called with an open IORequest describing the partition
> and whatever device was used to read the bootblock in... so it will always
> work, once the bootblock is reached.
>
> You got the NBS\1 in the left part of the bootmenu, selected it for booting
> and told it to boot?
>
> Show details, please (put RDSK and PART chain and the first 8k of the
> partition somewhere for download).
>
> Regards,
> 	-is
>
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Solved, sec/cyl was OK but the cobination "surfaces" and total cylinders 
was (in PART) wrong.

-Flo