From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 20 9: 1:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E6714CE5 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:01:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1242.bossig.com [208.26.241.242]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.5) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:08:05 -0800 Message-ID: <385E6102.A3612FA3@3-cities.com> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:01:54 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: alk@pobox.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad disk label References: <28469.945708721@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:48:15 PST, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > My / partition (wd0s1a) is 4GB but with LBA it is under 1023 cyls. > > This is the thing I was talking about: > > sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB)) > start 63, size 4194225 (2047 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 15 > > You may want to check with someone more knowledgeable, but I thought the > issue was 1GB. I'm not sure how much LBA is doing for you. What I remember being told when I first installed FreeBSD 2.2.8 back in February was that the 1023 limit that is the killer. My disk info is Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 25446897 (12425 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 Kent > > Ciao, > Sheldon. -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message