From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 9 14:35:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15456 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:35:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line5.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15451 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:35:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA06200; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:35:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:35:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Dave Bodenstab cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange disk geometry during install In-Reply-To: <199708081741.MAA04286@imdave.pr.mcs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Dave Bodenstab wrote: > Next I decided to try putting FreeBSD in the first (large) partition, > with dos at the end of the disk. I thought that with LBA support, I might > get away with this. When I went back to dos' fdisk, it now reported only > 504M total space !!! What's going on? Turn LBA off. If you change this setting you have to refresh your partition table's geometries, and I don't know how to do that programmaitcally. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo