From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 24 13:19:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA12447 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:19:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA12438; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:18:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id KAA01826; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:56:09 +0100 (MET) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Bruce Evans , fenner@parc.xerox.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 23 Nov 1996 21:46:08 PST." <473.848814368@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:56:08 +0100 Message-ID: <1824.848829368@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <473.848814368@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >> Sysinstall apparently still has the bug. This is caused by making >> the partition size and/or end one sector too large, so that the >> ending head/sector numbers are 0/1 instead of max_head/max_cylinder. >> This confuses the kernel since by definition a valid BSD slice >> ends at a cylinder boundary to help the kernel detect the geometry. >> This important requirement seems to be unknown to most install programs >> and persons :-(. > >This has nothing to do with sysinstall as it does not calculate >geometry. This is done by libdisk and is an important bit of >information which seems to be unknown to most non-install persons. :-) I >do< recognize a hint when delivered on a brick through my window :-) I will try to resolve this. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.