From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 26 08:59:10 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA20109 for current-outgoing; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 08:59:10 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA20098; Sun, 26 Mar 1995 08:58:57 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id CAA27419; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 02:55:14 +1000 Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 02:55:14 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199503261655.CAA27419@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: brian@mediacity.com, phk@ref.tfs.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi sd.c Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org, me@FreeBSD.org Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >I'm still lost. Around 95/03/23 08:09:02 -current wouldn't bring up >my f partition anymore. That version didn't compensate for all of the historical bugs. >It does however boot, mount a and e correctly and then pukes on f saying >can't read sectors 16-31, not a BSD labelled drive. My f partition is >about 1.6GB. The whole drive was used for FreeBSD. The boot messages probably say that the FreeBSD slice has size 50000. 50000 is smaller than the whole drive, and only worked because of inadequate error checking. >I remember the install code talking about slicing and having to install >slice 1 (0) as the FreeBSD slice. Is there another level of slicing? >How does one "slice" a drive? Put a valid DOSpartition table on it. Bruce