Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:31:44 +1030 From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Poor recognition of drive partitions Message-ID: <01021318240209.02553@PhD_1.testname.com.au>
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I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.2 onto an old laptop which has an old IDE
controller which will not recognise >540M HD
I have installed a 1.7G HD using Maxtor's ezsetup. This works.
I have partitioned the drive using Partition Magic and installed Win3.11 on the
first 250M, leaving the remainder free for BSD.
However, when I get to the "make partitions" part of the install process, this
is what I see:
(I have used fixed font and 5 spaces between columns in the table)
Disk Name: ad0
DISK geometry: 850 cyls/64 heads/63 sectors = 3427200 sectors (1673MB)
Offset Size(MB) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags
0 0 62 - 6 unused 0
63 1671 3423167 as0s1 1 unknown 85
3423168 1 3427199 - 6 unused 0
In this condition, the cursor key operation is invisible/inactive and if I get
the system to <C>reate it offers me a suitable partition of 4K sectors (ie 2M).
The geometry is right, but Free BSD is clearly unable to read correctly the
partition table created by Partition Magic.
Work-around or solutions, anyone?
--
Regards,
Brian
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Dr Brian Astill Visiting Research Fellow
Flinders University Institute of International Education
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bastill@sa.apana.org.au
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