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Date:      Fri, 12 Jun 1998 03:28:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dang-Ngoc TUYET-TRAM <Dang-Ngoc.Tuyet-Tram@prism.uvsq.fr>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Partionning disk drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612032653.11999z-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980611234206.A4275@gibet.prism.uvsq.fr>

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On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Dang-Ngoc TUYET-TRAM wrote:

> for FreeBSD. and after having installed everything, I could never reboot
> on FreeBSD, because I always get an error such as :  "Error
> C:1056>1023". As some people suggested me in this mailing-list, I tried
> to change LBA on bios, to shrink with FIPS, and all sorts of things.
> Finally, I decided to save my data, and to format completely the disk. 
> Then with my empty disk, I put a FreeBSD boot floppy disk, and under
> /stand/sysinstall I have when getting to the fdisk execution :  Before
> creating anything:  *** Disk name : wd0 DISK geometry : 528 cyls/32
> heads/63 sectors = 1064448 sectors offset size end name ptype desc
> subtype flag 0 1065456 1065455 - 6 unused 0 **** Ok, now, I just want to
> _CREATE_ a FreeBSD slice, so I type 'C' to create, enter the value given
> by default (1065456), choose FreeBSD slice 165).  and what I get is
> strange
> 
> ++++
> Disk name : wd0
> DISK geometry : 528 cyls/32 heads/63 sectors = 1064448 sectors
> offset	size	end	name	ptype	desc	subtype	flag
> 0	63	62	-	6	unused	0	
> 63	1064385	1064447	wd0s1	3	freebsd	165	C
> 1064448	1008	1065455	-	6	unused	0
> ++++

This is perfectly normal and mandated by the partition table.


I'd suggest splitting the FreeBSD slice into two, once that is 500MB and
another which is the rest of the disk.  Install to the 500MB slice and
mount the leftover later as another FS.  That should get you booting.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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