From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Sep 13 22:53:30 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA22622 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 22:53:30 -0700 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA22591 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 22:53:19 -0700 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA11128; Thu, 14 Sep 1995 15:48:45 +1000 Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 15:48:45 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199509140548.PAA11128@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: Marcus.John@wiesbaden.netsurf.de, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Funny fdisk? Sender: bugs-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >I have a a strange problem when I boot up diskless in order to get the local >disk (wd0) quiet. >Even though the disk shows up correctly during boot, and I have done MAKEDEV, >fdisk cannot report the proper information for the local disk. But funny I can >mount the UFS4s on it and swapon to it. >BTW the disk uses LBA! Does fdisk report the proper information if you boot from wd0? `netboot' doesn't initialize the boot parameters for BIOS drives. This makes a difference only if the command to ask the drive for its parameters fails (it shouldn't fail for IDE or EIDE drives, but failures have been reported). If both the BIOS parameters and the drive parameters are unavailable, then I would expect ufs to fail, but fdisk might work :-). Bruce