Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 20:45:30 +1000 (EST) From: Simon Lai <sjlai@mac20.ct.monash.edu.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Crazzzzzzzy Partions !! Message-ID: <199506051045.UAA10893@mac20.ct.monash.edu.au>
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Suggestions please,
There has got to be something better than the partitioning system
(disk geometry disaster) that PC's currently use !! Anyhow onto
my own (hardly unique) partitioning problem :
A B C D
CYL 826 1656 827 6546
HEADS 16 16 32 15
TRKS 63 63 63 17
#Sect 832608 1669248 1667232 1669230
A - BIOS as set when machine was first turned on
B - BIOS after autodetect of hard disk
C - What Norton's disk editor says the disk geometry is
D - What FreeBSD detects the disk geometry as being
(A) was obviously wrong, though DOS was still able to boot.
I have the latest floppies (Jun 5) that I could get from the
FreeBSD ftp site. When I go to assign a partition, the partition
table that FreeBSD presents looks nothing like the way DOS sees it.
Of the roughly 800 Mb available, 300 is used by DOS and 500 Mb is
free (thanks to FIPS). So at least FIPS and DOS agree.
This machine was installed by somebody else and when it boots a little
blue banner box comes up with "MICRO HOUSE INTERNATIONAL, Maximum Overdrive
(tm), 528+ million byte support". Could this be the cause of the
problem (duh) ? Looks like some sort of disk geometry software similar
to OnTrack DM.
I have tried entering the different sets of disk parameters using the
'G' option on the disk partioning page with no improvement.
I'd like to get into this new installation system that everybody
is talking about, but alas, I can't destroy the DOS partition (DOS
does it again). Suggestions anyone? I'd prefer not to back up the
DOS partition and re-install it, if possible.
Life and death.
simon
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