Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 09:53:15 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pilot error on my part or feedback on the 2.1 snap Message-ID: <199508301353.JAA04922@exalt.x.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 30 Aug 1995 04:13:22 EST. <199508301113.EAA07934@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > >1222 meg drive, actual geometry reported during the boot probe is 2484
> > >Cyl, 16 H, 63 Sec, CMOS geometry is 621 Cyl, 64 H, 64 Sec. This machine
^^^^^^^
That was a typo, of course I meant 63 Sectors.
> >
> > 63 sectors in the CMOS? c/h/s format only goes up to sector 63.
>
> Sector numbers in fdisk are 1 based, not 0 based. This is due to
> DOS's same brain damage which was copied into mach, which was then
> copied into FreeBSD.
>
> Someone should go kill:
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
>
> and remove the 1 bias in fdisk.
Many thanks to those who told me that the 2.1-SNAP had a broken disklabel.
The 2.0.5 boot-floppy is happily (apparently) installing the 2.1-SNAP
as I write this.
--
Kaleb KEITHLEY
X Consortium
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199508301353.JAA04922>