From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 20 7:59:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from poboxer.pobox.com (ferg5200-1-11.cpinternet.com [208.149.16.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C9BD152C9 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 07:59:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alk@poboxer.pobox.com) Received: (from alk@localhost) by poboxer.pobox.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA33878; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:59:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from alk) From: Anthony Kimball MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:59:45 -0600 (CST) X-Face: \h9Jg:Cuivl4S*UP-)gO.6O=T]]@ncM*tn4zG);)lk#4|lqEx=*talx?.Gk,dMQU2)ptPC17cpBzm(l'M|H8BUF1&]dDCxZ.c~Wy6-j,^V1E(NtX$FpkkdnJixsJHE95JlhO 5\M3jh'YiO7KPCn0~W`Ro44_TB@&JuuqRqgPL'0/{):7rU-%.*@/>q?1&Ed Reply-To: alk@pobox.com To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad disk label References: <14426.27760.434607.23832@avalon.east> <86224.945687769@axl.noc.iafrica.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14430.17326.720254.530537@avalon.east> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoth Sheldon Hearn on Mon, 20 December: : : : On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:03:32 CST, Anthony Kimball wrote: : : > This disk is working just fine, but I can't boot from it, as the : > loader won't read the slice 3 file systems. How can I fix the : > beginning/ending sector coordinates? : : As far as I know, this is still a limitation of FreeBSD -- our boot : blocks and/or loader (not sure) don't work for partitions beyond the 1GB : limit. Strange -- I boot wd0s3a just fine, but not wd1s3a. I eventually repartitioned wd1 to look just like wd0 (or as much like it as possible, as shown below) but I still can't boot from wd1s3a. ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1582 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1582 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 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 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) start 63, size 4192902 (2047 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 260/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 130,(Linux swap or Solaris x86) start 4192965, size 273105 (133 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 261/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 277/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 14795865, size 10618965 (5185 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 921/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 131,(Linux filesystem) start 4466070, size 10329795 (5043 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 278/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 920/ sector 63/ head 254 ******* Working on device /dev/rwd1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1653 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1653 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 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 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) start 63, size 4192902 (2047 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 260/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 130,(Linux swap or Solaris x86) start 4192965, size 273105 (133 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 261/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 277/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 14795865, size 11759580 (5741 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 921/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 131,(Linux filesystem) start 4466070, size 10329795 (5043 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 278/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 920/ sector 63/ head 254 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message