From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 24 01:21:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA05486 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 01:21:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA05456 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 01:21:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA17186 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:21:30 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA17494 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:21:30 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id JAA09736 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:40:07 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611240840.JAA09736@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:40:07 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199611231208.WAA22633@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Nov 23, 96 10:38:12 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > I've been using NCR's for 2 years and even now a box with one > > is near me installed a while ago. Each and every such a box > > with just any HDD brand was installed in a 'dangerously dedicated' > > fascion and it just worked. > > *shrug* Bruce recently posted the results of some tests he performed, > which matched with my empirical observations that the NCR BIOS reads > the contents of the MBR and reports its geometry to match. Just to second Andrew's statement, that's the fdisk table of my sd0. I have moved it from an EISA Bt742A controller to an NCR 53c810 when turning my system PCI: j@uriah 882% /sbin/fdisk ******* Working on device /dev/rsd0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=4177 heads=8 sectors/track=125 (1000 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=4177 heads=8 sectors/track=125 (1000 blks/cyl) Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 0 is: The data for partition 1 is: The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 50000 (24 Meg), flag 80 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255 As you can see, the fdisk table is bogus. The mainboard (and thus NCR BIOS) is an ASUS one. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)