From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 1 9:47:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBFDC37B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 09:47:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.sentex.ca (smtp2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3248743E9C for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 09:47:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from granite.sentex.ca (ns.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by smtp2.sentex.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB1Hl9kJ059003 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 12:47:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from house.sentex.net (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by granite.sentex.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB1Hl3lt089853 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 12:47:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20021201124119.04f16660@192.168.0.12> X-Sender: mdtancsa@192.168.0.12 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 12:47:12 -0500 To: FreeBSD Stable From: Mike Tancsa Subject: CF Geometry issues Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 I am trying to format a CF disk port 2 addr 2: power 100 mA, config 1, eUSB CompactFlash Adapter(0x000a), SCM Microsystems Inc.(0x04e6), rev 2.18 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 650KB/s transfers da0: 61MB (125440 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 61C) I can fdisk and disklabel it no problem, but I can never seem to make it bootable. fdisk da0 ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=490 heads=16 sectors/track=16 (256 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=490 heads=16 sectors/track=16 (256 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 16, size 2032 (0 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 7/ head 15/ sector 16 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 2048, size 123392 (60 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 8/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 489/ head 15/ sector 16 The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: reading through the archives it seems a lot of people run into this issue, but I have not found the solution. People talk of "faking" the geometry, but I am not sure other than through trial and error how to find the "right" geometry in order to allow me to boot from it. The end goal being popping the CF into a Soekris box. Thanks for any pointers, ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message