From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 20 1:51:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 131C537B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 01:51:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail-2.zoominternet.net (mail-2.zoominternet.net [63.67.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B85143E3B for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 01:51:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmmiller@cvzoom.net) Received: (qmail 11549 invoked from network); 20 Nov 2002 09:51:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cvzoom.net) ([24.239.74.237]) (envelope-sender ) by mail-2.zoominternet.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Nov 2002 09:51:06 -0000 Message-ID: <3DDB5B0B.7090002@cvzoom.net> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 04:51:07 -0500 From: Donn Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021119 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jun Kuriyama Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk editor in DP2 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jun Kuriyama wrote: > I'm trying to install DP2 to old machine (P2 dual). This box has 2GB > IDE disk and ran NT4 before. > > When entering fdisk editor after booting from CD-ROM, I cannot delete > NTFS partition by "D" key. "D" key only shows cursor up (NTFS is at > offset 63, offset 0 seems boot selector for NT). > > Can I do something for debugging? I've got the same problem. I installed a -current snapshot about 2 1/2 weeks back, and the fdisk editor obviously wrote the partition tables with a different assumption about disk geometry than 4.7-stable. Now, my partition tables have boundaries that Linux's fdisk disagrees with. For example, using Linux fdisk from my Gentoo install: fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2432 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 36 289138+ a0 IBM Thinkpad hibernation Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(573, 11, 63) should be (573, 254, 63) /dev/hda2 * 37 765 5855692+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary: phys=(1023, 2, 63) should be (1023, 254, 63) /dev/hda3 766 1403 5124735 5 Extended /dev/hda4 1404 2432 8265442+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda5 766 767 16033+ 83 Linux /dev/hda6 768 778 88326 83 Linux /dev/hda7 779 798 160618+ 83 Linux /dev/hda8 799 831 265041 83 Linux /dev/hda9 832 1403 4594558+ 83 Linux I never had this problem with FreeBSD-stable and Linux. And now, with the DP2 install CD, I can't delete any partitions with "D", as the cursor just moves up. Here is FreeBSD's idea of my disk geometry: C/H/S == 38760/16/53 Here is what Linux reports: dmesg | grep hda ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1080-0x1087, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio hda: TOSHIBA MK2016GAP, ATA DISK drive hda: 39070080 sectors (20004 MB), CHS=2432/255/63, UDMA(33) So, I tried pressing "G", and entering in "2432/255/63", but the DP2 fdisk editor still wouldn't let me delete any partitions. I suppose GEOM is the "culprit" here. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message