From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 14 22:39:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA02708 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 22:39:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.lig.bellsouth.net (mail.lig.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02692 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 22:39:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from glenn@bellsouth.net) Received: from gforce.bellsouth.net (host-32-96-78-21.msy.bellsouth.net [32.96.78.21]) by mail.lig.bellsouth.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA13314; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 01:43:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from gforce.bellsouth.net (localhost.bellsouth.net [127.0.0.1]) by gforce.bellsouth.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA00275; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:35:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from glenn@gforce.bellsouth.net) Message-Id: <199801150635.AAA00275@gforce.bellsouth.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 From: Glenn Johnson To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition errors In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:28:00 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 00:35:25 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > 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