Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 21:46:51 +0930 From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: CAN newfs ad1s3 - BUT! Message-ID: <200205130533.g4D5XL158094@tierzero.apana.org.au>
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Greetings, all!
Odd. Tried again using stand/sysinstall and this time "insisted" by using
<W>rite to disk and ignored all warnings - it worked.
BUT, while fdisk ad1 shows:
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parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=1027 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 63, size 3132612 (1529 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 194/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 3132675, size 3068415 (1498 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 195/ head 0/ sector 1;
end: cyl 385/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 6201090, size 10297665 (5028 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 386/ head 0/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
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disklabel and newfs do NOT make ad1s3 available for uee <sigh>
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Regards,
Brian
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