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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com, gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Cannot boot after install
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>Partitioning with DOS does get rid of the geometry rejection problem.
>(Though, for some reason, fdisk sets the geometry to 1/1/1 as I partition
>and I have to reset it. This is apparently a bug.) However, I still had

I've seen this before (sysinstall or libdisk creates an invalid partition
table with an ending C/H/S values of 1023/1/1 or something like that) but
don't have any free disks to duplicate it on now.  I tried sysinstall
on a sliced floppy.  This used to sort of work, but now sysinstall dumps
core writing the partition table.  Also, sysinstall no longer sort of works
when run by non-root - keyboard input isn't recognised.  Also, the
libdisk tags got lost when libdisk was moved to /usr/src/lib.

Bruce