From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 26 11:45:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 65DE416A41C for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:45:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: from thing.verysmall.org (thing.verysmall.org [212.100.226.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0DC243D48 for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:45:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pobox@verysmall.org) Received: (qmail 12916 invoked by uid 89); 26 Jun 2005 12:03:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (iavor.raytchev@verysmall.org@80.121.43.226) by thing.verysmall.org with SMTP; 26 Jun 2005 12:03:19 -0000 Message-ID: <42BE955A.9070407@verysmall.org> Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 13:45:30 +0200 From: Iavor Raytchev User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0+ (Windows/20050620) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Zbyslaw References: <42BDD52B.70804@verysmall.org> <42BDE482.5070006@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <42BDE482.5070006@dial.pipex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PartitionMagic question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 11:45:37 -0000 Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Iavor Raytchev wrote: > >> When I run PartitionMagic it reported 3 errors - different LBA and CHS >> values - the errors are on the first sector of the FreeBSD partitions >> and on the first sectors of the next two partitions (seeing from the >> LBA). PartitionMagic says in all 3 cases that the LBA and CHS values >> are different. In all 3 cases the CHS value is the same - 15483887 >> (drive geometry is 5168/240/63). After PartitionMagic repairs the >> errors everything is OK. Both OS boot well. >> >> My questions are - >> >> a) does somebody know why the errors appear? >> >> b) is the installation safe after the errors are fixed? > > I can't tell you why PM reports these errors except to say that it has > done it to me on every disk I have ever used it on (all of 3 :-)). > However, I always choose to ignore PM and *not* let it "fix" anything. > Everything works perfectly for me without being "fixed" so I'd rather > not take the risk. > > --Alex Yes, I forgot to mention that it happens every time - all 3 (I did the installation about a dozen times). OK it's good to know that I am not the only one with the problem. I'll take the opposite approach and let them fixed (I am still just playing) so that we can make also "the other" experience. Thanks nevertheless. Iavor