From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 24 08:11:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6CC116A4DB for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:11:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postfix4-1.free.fr (postfix4-1.free.fr [213.228.0.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF3744017 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:11:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from radu.florin@free.fr) Received: from castor (lns-th2-6-82-64-213-145.adsl.proxad.net [82.64.213.145]) by postfix4-1.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A53494CF6A for ; Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:11:47 +0200 (CEST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed To: questions@freebsd.org From: "radu.florin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:11:49 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera7.10/Win32 M2 build 2840 Subject: Disk geometry X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 15:11:50 -0000 Hi, I'm testing the coexistence of Win95, Linux Slackware and Free BSD 5.1 on a single physical disk PC ( P133, 16Mo RAM, 3 GO dd). Just the time to see if I can boot to the OS I want to use. Then to install on a PC with 384 Mo RAM a 40 Go dd On the P133 I'm testing, all is working fine with Win and Slack. Slack boot lets me go to Win or Linux without any problem. I installed also a minimal FreeBSD in good conditions. But I have no access at it... Slack boot don't see it. And if I accept-when installing Free BSD - one of his boots (MBR or SB) I can't have no Win, no Slack, neither FreeBSD. It displays the usual choice F1, F2... but no one works (just screaming). It seems to be a dd geometry problem. The sfdsk of Slack, displays so the partitions: -------------------------------------------------------- Disk /dev/hda: 785 cylinders, 128 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 4128768 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0   Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 0+ 207 208- 838624+ 6 FAT16 end: (c,h,s) expected (207,127,63) found (1023,13,63) partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk /dev/hda2 208 216- 9- 32634 82 Linux swap start: (c,h,s) expected (208,0,1) found (1023,255,63) end: (c,h,s) expected (216,11,63) found (1023,14,63) partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk /dev/hda3 * 216+ 470- 254- 1023907+ a5 FreeBSD start: (c,h,s) expected (216,12,1) found (1023,255,63) end: (c,h,s) expected (470,4,63) found (1023,14,63) partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk /dev/hda4 470+ 785- 316- 1272442+ 83 Linux start: (c,h,s) expected (470,5,1) found (1023,255,63) end: (c,h,s) expected (785,79,63) found (1023,14,63) partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk /dev/hda5 216+ 281- 66- 262144 /dev/hda6 281+ 289- 9- 32768 /dev/hda7 289+ 354- 66- 262144 /dev/hda8 354+ 419- 66- 262144 /dev/hda9 419+ 470- 51- 204707+ --- -- ------------------------------------------------- --------------------- I don't have valuable data on this system, so I can wipe of all the OS and start to re-partition. In that case what tool to use ? The old MS fdisk ? Is it necessary to choose some particular parameters ? Thank you for a suggestion, Florin Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/