From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 06:53:54 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id GAA01562 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 06:53:54 -0700 Received: from expo.x.org (expo.x.org [198.112.45.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA01556 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 06:53:50 -0700 Received: from exalt.x.org by expo.x.org id AA19966; Wed, 30 Aug 95 09:53:18 -0400 Received: from localhost by exalt.x.org id JAA04922; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 09:53:16 -0400 Message-Id: <199508301353.JAA04922@exalt.x.org> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pilot error on my part or feedback on the 2.1 snap In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 30 Aug 1995 04:13:22 EST. <199508301113.EAA07934@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Organization: X Consortium Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 09:53:15 EST From: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >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