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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!malgudi.oar.net!news.pipeline.com!uunet!psinntp!interramp.com!usenet.interramp.com!pp000039 From: pp000039@interramp.com (Brian P. Childs) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: FBSD-1.1.5.1 problems with the boot blocks Date: 28 Jul 1994 04:25:29 GMT Organization: InterRamp Lines: 22 Distribution: global Message-ID: <PP000039.94Jul28002530@scrub.interramp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip132.new-york.ny.interramp.com Hey all, I've always had some problems booting. Under 1.1, I got the error message 'bad disklabel' about every other boot, but if I just entered '/386bsd' at the next boot prompt, it worked every time. As a result this never really bothered me. I upgraded from 1.1 to 1.1.5.1 over the weekend, and now I get the bad disklabel message *much* more frequently, and no matter how many times I enter /386bsd at the boot prompt I keep getting the same error. I am forced to reset the machine. It will eventually boot though, but not without resetting it 4 or 5 times. I have an Adaptec 1742 SCSI card. A Micropolis 1.2 GB hard disk, 1760 cyl, 15 head, 77 sec, fully devoted to FreeBSD. Do you think this is some kind of BIOS problem since I have > 1024 cyl? Is there a fix? Is anyone else having this problem? Brian