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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: WD1007 and FreeBSD, OK what's the magic?
Message-ID: <id.GEWM1.1B6@nmti.com>
Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 21:22:39 GMT
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Controller: WD1007-WA4, jumpered for translation OFF.
Drives: wd0, wd1: ESDI, 1225 cyl, 15 head, 35 tracks.
Partitioning: 2 slices, 377 cylinders for root+swap, rest for /usr.
Disklabel looks fine from floppy. I can even boot and get a holographic
shell chrooted under /mnt and it's all happy.

Symptom: Won't boot. "Bad disklabel". I assume it's barfing because it's
	looking at LBA addresses and the disklabel's in the wrong place.
	I can't do a whole disk because BAD144 would blow up. I can't use
	<1024 cylinders because install doesn't give that option.
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