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From: giffin@fas.harvard.edu (Daniel B Giffin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: boot manager freaks with (flakey?) disk
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 1997 22:21:26 -0500
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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I have had what looked like disk problems (bad144 seemed to be reporting
bad blocks in my root partition) right after installing some new memory
(it might be non-parity). After all sorts of problems playing with the
disk and trying to reinstall things, I discovered
The partition editor gives the following about my disk, which is supposed
to have a 16MB DOS partition followed by a FreeBSD partition taking the
rest of the disk:
Geometry: 135 cyls/196 heads/63 sectors = 1666980 sectors
offset end PType Desc Subtype Flags
-------------------------------------------------------------
0 62 6 unused 0
wd0s1 63 24633 2 fat 6
wd0s2 24696 1642284 3 freebsd 165 C
1666980 1667231 6 unused 0
The install went fine (no complaints about the disk), but when I try to
start the thing up, the boot manager seems to get confused:
F1 . . . dos
F2 . . . BSD
Default: F? <I press F2>
F1 . . . dos
F2 . . . BSD
Default: F? <I press F2>
etc. ...
Is there anything more drastic I could do to my disk to fix whatever the
memory might have done to it? Or perhaps the disk is permanently
damaged? (I ran the bad-block check on things when I repartitioned, and
it either didn't find any problems or else wrote the bad block list to
disk without stopping to tell me.)
Thanks for any help.
daniel