Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 13:12:43 -0600 From: "Erik M. Theisen" <etheisen@TECLink.Net> To: darrenr@cyber.com.au Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, port-i386@netbsd.org, etheisen@ozzy Subject: Re: Incompatible slices. Message-ID: <199602251912.NAA04640@ozzy> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Feb 1996 00:51:46 %2B1100." <199602251351.AAA01557@plum.cyber.com.au>
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The difference's are because of BIOS geometery. FreeBSD correctly uses the BIOS geo for partition layout. NetBSD does it own thing based upon a default partioning scheme layed out in the 1st stage loader. Or it uses it idea of the drives native geo. We need to work on getting this resolved. It has caused newcomers serious grief. Plus it's partioning scheme is not PC OS compatible. 1) Partion geo should always be layed out in the MBR in exact same geo that DOG would use. 2) The actual size should be used, not 24MB. 3) Same goes for beginning/end addresses. 3) The first track as defined by DOG should be skipped. erik
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