Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 08:11:20 -0500 From: Hiten Pandya <hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com> To: walt <wa1ter@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unsucessful with 5.0-CURRENT Installation on a 120G IDE HDD Message-ID: <20021102081120.A54484@angelica.unixdaemons.com> In-Reply-To: <3DC32BD9.1080800@hotmail.com>; from wa1ter@hotmail.com on Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:35:21PM -0800 References: <apuprt$1lri$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <3DC32BD9.1080800@hotmail.com>
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Hmm, OK.
Let me rephrase it all.
I have a 120G IDE disk, which is under LBA mode. It is the second disk
on my system. I have been using it with my old (julyish) -current for a
while now as a backup disk thingy.
My disk layout:
ad1s1: 8997MB FreeBSD slice
ad1s3: 50995MB FreeBSD slice
ad1s2: 54478MB FAT32 slice
(Note the order)
This is how Sysinstall's fdisk reports it in 5.0-CURRENT-20021028. The sizes
are displayed correctly here, but when I try labeling the disk through
sysinstall's Configure->Label, It shows:
Disk: ad3 Partition name: ad3s1 Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
Disk: ad3 Partition name: ad3s3 Free: 102110549 blocks (49858MB)
Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs
---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- -----
ad3s1a <none> 128MB * ad3s2 <none> 54478MB DOS
ad3s1b <none> 1008MB *
ad3s1e <none> 256MB *
ad3s1f <none> 256MB *
ad3s1g <none> 7348MB *
ad3s3a <none> 128MB * <-- Notice the sizes
ad3s3b <none> 1008MB * <--
Note, ad3 should only show up as one partition, which, is 50995MB in
size. The size 1000MB and 128MB DOES NOT MAKE SENSE AT ALL. Also NOTE,
that the DOS partition shows has the right size, without any problems.
This problem does not occur on my older -current, which, was before GEOM
or even KSE III was integrated. On IRC, I have been told that it could
be that geom_mbr is somehow messed up, but I cant say anything on that.
FWIW, I have used up around 12G on the FreeBSD (ad1s3) slice, and around
20G on my DOS slice. The data got there, because I sliced the disk on
my older -current, but I dont think that has got anything to do with it.
FDISK Data:
Script started on Fri Nov 1 05:04:33 2002
vmnet-current:1m/usr/src/sys/geomm#> fdisk ad3
******* Working on device /dev/ad3 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=232581 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=232581 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 18426492 (8997 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 12 (0x0c),(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT (LBA))
start 122865120, size 111571425 (54478 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1023/ head 0/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 18426555, size 104438565 (50995 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 1023/ head 0/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
Script done on Fri Nov 1 05:04:37 2002
When I go to Configure->Fdisk in sysinstall, it shows this WARNING
message, which, I dont get in my old NON-GEOM system. If there is
anymore data you would like, then please do not hesitate to contact me.
Cheers.
--
Hiten Pandya
hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, hiten@softweyr.com
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:35:21PM -0800, walt wrote the words in effect of:
> Hiten Pandya wrote:
> > Hi there.
> >
> > I tried installing the 5.0-CURRENT-20021028-JPSNAP ISO today, on my 120G
> > harddrive, which is the second one on the system. Sysinstall failed to get
> > the right geometry of the disk, even though the BIOS was in LBA mode.
> >
> > My 50G FreeBSD partition (ad1s3) as two partitions, 1000MB and a 128MB.
>
> Sorry, I'm not understanding that sentence. Is there a typographical error
> in there somewhere, perhaps? 1000MB + 128MB <> 50GB
>
> > The DOS partition (ad1s2) on the harddrive was just right, and nothing
> > wrong it, but only the FreeBSD partitions messed up.
>
> Sorry, I'm still confused. You have two different FBSD partitions on the
> same disk (s3 and s1)?
>
>
> > I made a 8G partition on the front of the disk (ad1s1), in which I was
> > planning to install FreeBSD. Now, I am not sure what the real cause is,
> > i.e. why are we not allowed to install on an 8G partition on a 120G disk?
>
> No reason. It should work. Is the install failing at some point with
> error messages? Did the install finish but now you can't boot the new
> system?
>
> > It could be that I am doing something very wrong, but I would like to get
> > to the bottom of this, as I lost about 15G worth of data,
>
> I'm confused again. Data on the FreeBSD partition? Which FBSD partition?
> How did the data get there and in what way is it lost now, exactly?
>
> > i.e. fdisk still
> > shows that the partition is there, but fsck_ffs is not proceeding.
>
> You mean when you try to boot the 8GB partition, or the 50GB partition?
> Is fsck complaining about something? What is it saying? Please be
> very specific about error messages.
>
>
>
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