From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 25 11:37:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5F1137B8DF for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:37:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn2209.bossig.com [208.26.242.209]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.7) with ESMTP id for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:46:37 -0800 Message-ID: <38DD1596.5BEE5000@3-cities.com> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:37:58 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: HD Disk Partitioning Error Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been trying to convert one of my Win 2000 machines to multi-boot FreeBSD. It is working partially. What I am seeing is partition error messages at boot time such as wd0s3: raw partition size != slice size wd0s3: start 14410305, end 24643709, size 10233405 wd0s3c: start 14410305, end 30780539, size 16370235 wd0s3: truncating raw partition Output from fdisk is ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2491 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2491 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 4176837 (2039 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 259/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 4176900, size 10233405 (4996 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 260/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 896/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) start 14410305, size 10233405 (4996 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 897/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) start 24643710, size 15374205 (7506 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1023/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 If I try to add information using fdisk and label, I get an "Illegal Partition" message from the bios at boot followed by a hang. The drive is one of the new Maxtor UDMA66 HD's and the latest cvsup'ed version of 3.4-Stable. It was upgraded on 24 Mar 00 and installed. The mb is an Abit BX6r2 with the Award Bios reflashed to support 40GB drives. At this point, I have 4 primary partitions, which is the maximum allowed by Win2000. The fdisk information for partition 3 is right but the calculation in dmesg output is bogus. I have deleted everything but the first fat partition and my FreeBSD partition and tried to add an additional slice with fdisk. When I do this, the system ALWAYS hangs at boot. I have reinstalled FreeBSD into a larger partition 2, which lets me function at this point. The only really frustrating part of this is fdisk changing the active partition to the FreeBSD one even though I tell it to leave everything alone. This means that I have to boot to Win98 startup disk and fdisk my active partition to partition 1, which lets me use the W2K boot manager. This system will be upgraded to 4.0-Stable as soon as I have CD's and have access to cvsup but I would like to make it work as it stands. At this point, I have given up on things I can permute and need additional suggestions. Any ideas? Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message