From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 17 21:20:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E87CD37B429 for ; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 21:20:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 846 invoked by uid 0); 18 Jun 2002 04:16:53 -0000 Received: from p5091085d.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (HELO mail.gsinet.sittig.org) (80.145.8.93) by mail.gmx.net (mp016-rz3) with SMTP; 18 Jun 2002 04:16:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 78161 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2002 21:30:47 -0000 Received: from shell.gsinet.sittig.org (192.168.11.153) by mail.gsinet.sittig.org with SMTP; 17 Jun 2002 21:30:47 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by shell.gsinet.sittig.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id g5HLUlK78157 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:30:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sittig) Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:30:47 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk seems broken for slices above cyl 1023 Message-ID: <20020617233047.Z1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020616233233.GC56375@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020617125915.H3073-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020617095241.A51682@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020617095241.A51682@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org>; from hans@lambermont.dyndns.org on Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:52:41AM +0200 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:52 +0200, Hans Lambermont wrote: > > Bruce Evans wrote: > > > On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > > This is correct and not a bug. C/H/S values in fdisk tables are limited > > to 10/8/6 bits, respectively, so the best tha can be done with a 'C' > > value larger than 1023 is truncate it mod 1024. > > Ok, this makes sense. > > > FreeBSD's fdisk(8) does this. However, over the last few years, some > > bad hacks for clipping the CHS values have become less nonstandard, > > and are required to satisfy some broken BIOSes. Your original fdisk > > entries (not shown above) seem to have been created by an fdisk that > > supports this. > > That's interesting then. This disk was labeled by the install procedure > >from 4.5-R ! So I assume that the same fdisk is responsible for this. Has it really been the 4.5-R setup software which labelled the disk or has there been some previous software on the disk? The point I try to make is: Did you merely "format" the drive or was it really blank (some kind of "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0c") before you installed FreeBSD? Inserting boot code into an existing (BIOS) partition table is completely different from creating a new (BIOS) partition on a blank disk and thus entering the above values. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message