Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:35:25 -0600 From: Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition errors Message-ID: <199801150635.AAA00275@gforce.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:28:00 PST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980113202629.24708j-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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> On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > > wd2s1: raw partition size != slice size > > > > wd2s1: start 63, end 32255, size 32193 > > > > wd2s1c: start 63, end 1056383, size 1056321 > > > > wd2s1: truncating raw partition > > > > wd2s1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice > > [...] > > > This is what I suspected. The diskformat tutorial is what I used as my guide. > > I used the /stand/sysinstall program as per the instructions in the tutorial. > > I tried with the FBSD calculated disklabel, as well as specifying the geometry > > that the BIOS reported. No luck in either case. Should I try again using the > > command line instructions given in the tutorial? > > Hm, something must be miscalculating the gemoetry so badly that the > disklabel numbers are out of bounds. Is there anything else on this disk? > If not you might try dedicated mode. > I did try dedicated mode. That was my first choice. Then I tried non-dedicated mode and that did not work either. The only way I could get a successful newfs was to have a small DOS partition on the drive; but then I got the error messages above. -- Glenn Johnson gljohns@bellsouth.net
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