Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 21:46:08 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <473.848814368@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Nov 1996 07:52:00 %2B1100." <199611232052.HAA04600@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> Sysinstall apparently still has the bug. This is caused by making > the partition size and/or end one sector too large, so that the > ending head/sector numbers are 0/1 instead of max_head/max_cylinder. > This confuses the kernel since by definition a valid BSD slice > ends at a cylinder boundary to help the kernel detect the geometry. > This important requirement seems to be unknown to most install programs > and persons :-(. This has nothing to do with sysinstall as it does not calculate geometry. This is done by libdisk and is an important bit of information which seems to be unknown to most non-install persons. :-) Jordan
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