From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 23 03:22:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA20242 for current-outgoing; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 03:22:09 -0800 (PST) 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 DAA20227 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 03:22:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id MAA22232; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 12:21:59 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA12744; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 12:21:58 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id MAA03248; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 12:11:58 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611231111.MAA03248@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 12:11:58 +0100 (MET) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <96Nov22.234540pst.177557@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Nov 22, 96 11:45:25 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 Bill Fenner wrote: > I forgot that the partition table was probably wrong, too. I ran fdisk ...and that's the actual problem, of course. It's what the BIOS uses, and your 2000 > 1023 is also a BIOS problem > 4839 cylinders. I said "no" to manually setting the start/end of the > partition, and it made the start 0/1/0 and the end something like > 735/36/0. Seems to me that since the partition is the whole disk, the > end should be at least 1023/... fdisk stupidly masks off the upper bits that are not supported by the BIOS, hence the 735. Since both figures, the 735 and the 1023 are not representing the actual end of the slice from a BIOS point of view (since it's beyond the BIOS limits), it simply doesn't matter. FreeBSD doesn't care for these numbers either. -- 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. ;-)