Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:40:35 -0500 From: "Jeff Kreska" <jeff@kreska.org> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: install / boot last 3 gig of 25 gig drive Message-ID: <NDBBJACAOLMCLNLPHBIAAEHKCAAA.jeff@kreska.org>
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I tryed to install FreeBSD 3.3,3.4, and 4.0 release on the last three
gig of a 25 gig drive with no success.
After an install attempt the partition table of my disk is corrupt. Now
it is so screwed up that Partition Magic cant read it.
Through testing I determined that all I have to do to corrupt the
partition table is load the fdisk style editor (boot the install cd )
and hit "w" to write the info. I changed nothing and only performed a
write.
Looking at the partition info below, it appears as though the installer
is having some sort of 1023/4 cyclnder limit problem. I thought this
was not an issue with LBA?
Disk Geometry Information for Disk 1: 3278 Cylinders, 240 Heads, 63
Sectors/Track
System PartSect # Boot BCyl Head Sect FS ECyl Head
Sect StartSect NumSects
============================================================================
===============================
0 1 00 0 1 1 A0 554 15
63 63 559,377
Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
ucEndHead expected to be 239, not 15.
Error #110: Number of sectors in partition is inconsistent.
ucSectors = 559377
end - begin = 8377425
0 2 80 37 0 1 07 1023 15
63 559,440 17,130,960
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 2 80 37 0 1 07 1169 239 63 559440
17130960
0 3 00 1023 0 1 07 1023 15
63 17,690,400 25,734,240
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values are:
0 3 00 1170 0 1 07 2871 239 63 17690400
25734240
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