From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 18 1:22:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from moya.lambermont.dyndns.org (e165253.upc-e.chello.nl [213.93.165.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E80337B408 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 01:22:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moya.lambermont.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F06A36413; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:22:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: by moya.lambermont.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2100436405; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:22:39 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 10:22:39 +0200 To: Gerhard Sittig , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk seems broken for slices above cyl 1023 Message-ID: <20020618102238.A93468@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org> References: <20020616233233.GC56375@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020617125915.H3073-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020617095241.A51682@moya.lambermont.dyndns.org> <20020617233047.Z1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020617233047.Z1494@shell.gsinet.sittig.org>; from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net on Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 11:30:47PM +0200 From: hans@lambermont.dyndns.org (Hans Lambermont) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gerhard Sittig wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 09:52 +0200, Hans Lambermont wrote: > > That's interesting then. This disk was labeled by the install procedure > > from 4.5-R ! So I assume that the same fdisk is responsible for this. > > Has it really been the 4.5-R setup software which labelled the > disk or has there been some previous software on the disk? Well, the system being a HP Omnibook 6100 was probably preinstalled with some form of MS Windows. I didn't use this, I immediately booted from a FreeBSD 4.5-R installation cd. > The point I try to make is: Did you merely "format" the drive or was > it really blank (some kind of "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0c") before > you installed FreeBSD? Inserting boot code into an existing (BIOS) > partition table is completely different from creating a new (BIOS) > partition on a blank disk and thus entering the above values. Ok, then I assume there was already a partition for MS Windows using up the whole disk. (During the 4.5-R installation process I created a suspend-partition, 2 equal sized bootable freebsd partitions and a 4th empty partition for future use ... and this is the one I want to assign to FreeBSD now.) I have still 2 workaround questions: Can I just write a cyl-overlapping table with the right start/end sector stuff ? Should I set all start/end cylinders above 1023 to 1023 to be safe ? Hans Lambermont -- http://lambermont.webhop.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message