From owner-freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 18:20:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-i386@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA8D16A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:20:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0593543D41 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:20:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i0K2KDFR030063 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:20:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i0K2KD1L030061; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:20:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:20:13 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200401200220.i0K2KD1L030061@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org From: Chris Pepper Subject: Re: i386/61603: sysinstall: wrong geometry guessed X-BeenThere: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Chris Pepper List-Id: I386-specific issues for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:20:15 -0000 The following reply was made to PR i386/61603; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Chris Pepper To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: i386/61603: sysinstall: wrong geometry guessed Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:10:47 -0500 Further information: FreeBSD's fdisk comes up with these values, which don't correspond to sysinstall's guess or the values I copied from pfdisk to sysinstall to reinstall. fdisk comes up with the same values both with a non-booting system (booted from CD) and with a good system, booted normally from BootEasy. Chris Pepper >guest# fdisk >******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* >parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: >cylinders=77545 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > >Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 >parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: >cylinders=77545 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > >Media sector size is 512 >Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 >Information from DOS bootblock is: >The data for partition 1 is: >sysid 11 (0x0b),(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) > start 63, size 12579777 (6142 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; > end: cyl 831/ head 239/ sector 63 >The data for partition 2 is: >sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 12579840, size 65575440 (32019 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 832/ head 0/ sector 1; > end: cyl 1023/ head 239/ sector 63 >The data for partition 3 is: > >The data for partition 4 is: > -- Chris Pepper: Rockefeller University: