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infosoc

05-01-2010 03:27 PM

FreeBSD / OpenBSD Installs Fine, But Won't Boot on Laptop

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rocket357

05-01-2010 11:33 PM

Sounds almost like the disk isn't properly being marked active...though that doesn't explain why two BSD systems do the same thing.

Does the disk have a "recovery" partition at the front of the disk?

infosoc

05-02-2010 07:37 AM

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rocket357

05-02-2010 07:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by infosoc (Post 3954590)

fdisk shows:
Disk: wd0 geometry 12161/255/63 [195371568 sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0xAA55

As far as I can tell, geometry looks good. What does "disklabel wd0" output?

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