Subject: Re: Boot isues with SATA drives on P4C800-E Deluxe
To: Sebastien Erard <sebastien_erard@hotmail.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/03/2003 22:29:21
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:27:03AM +0100, Sebastien Erard wrote:
> >What does fdisk say?
> fdisk reports a BIOS geometry of 1024/16/63 for the first disk
> and 1023/255/63 for the second one (NetBSD geometry is the same
> 238216/16/63). This causes the NetBSD partition not to begin on
> a cylinder boundry on the first disk.

I was more interested in some of the other number, run 'fdisk -v wd0'
and show all the values output for the netbsd partition.
(Do the CHS values match the start sector?)

>  > I can boot NetBSD from the second drive (wd1) without trouble.

If you interrupt the down-count, can you 'boot wd0a' ?


	David

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