From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 7 01:21:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA06399 for current-outgoing; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 01:21:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA06392 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 01:21:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA03538; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 10:21:30 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA16895; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 10:21:29 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA24721; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 10:15:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607070815.KAA24721@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: New install using 2.2-SNAP ... To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 10:15:34 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Marc G. Fournier" at "Jul 6, 96 10:58:25 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] 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 As Marc G. Fournier wrote: > The reason I never noticed this before is that when I normally > install, I allocate the whole drive to FreeBSD, since I'm never going > to co-locate Linux/DOS on the same box... > > For some reason, this time, I failed to do that :( I you know how to read an fdisk table, and you can re-compute the required entries, you don't need to reinstall. What you are suffering is basically that your start values for the FreeBSD slice don't agree in terms of C/H/S from a BIOS point of view. Anyway, the LBA offset for the partition start is right, and if you pick the BIOS' geometry idea, you can recalculate the required C/H/S values to enter there. (Don't forget that sectors are numbered base 1, while cylinders and heads are numbered base 0 -- historical baggage.) This will usually end up in ``odd'' numbers, i.e. not starting on what the BIOS believes were a track boundary, but don't care, it will work nevertheless. The reason why you don't see it in ``dangerously dedicated'' mode is that the starting offset LBA is 0 there, and you can hardly miscompute a 0 into the wrong C/H/S values. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)