From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 25 13:22:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA10414 for current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:22:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA10381 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:21:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.Artisoft.COM by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA13334 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:22:14 -0800 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA23293; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:57:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199611252057.NAA23293@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:57:56 -0700 (MST) Cc: darrylo@sr.hp.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199611241959.LAA00651@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Nov 24, 96 11:59:10 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I would like to also see that corrected/changed to: > The data for partition 3 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 0, size 2097152 (1024 Meg), flag 80 > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 1023/ sector 32/ head 63 > > > Or atleast make size == cyl * sec * head (ie 1024*64*255 == 16711680) > my reasoning is that any third party fdisk program that sees the current > bogus table likes to try and ``fix it'' and usually ends up doing quite > the wrong thing : -(. This is bogus. Why can't I just ioctl the (unpartitioned) raw disk device and ask it? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.