From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 03:28:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA06404 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 03:28:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA06308 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 03:28:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA26951; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 03:28:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 03:28:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Dang-Ngoc TUYET-TRAM cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partionning disk drive In-Reply-To: <19980611234206.A4275@gibet.prism.uvsq.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message