Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:01:54 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: alk@pobox.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad disk label Message-ID: <385E6102.A3612FA3@3-cities.com> References: <28469.945708721@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:48:15 PST, Kent Stewart wrote:
>
> > My / partition (wd0s1a) is 4GB but with LBA it is under 1023 cyls.
>
> This is the thing I was talking about:
>
> sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
> start 63, size 4194225 (2047 Meg), flag 80 (active)
> beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
> end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 15
>
> You may want to check with someone more knowledgeable, but I thought the
> issue was 1GB. I'm not sure how much LBA is doing for you.
What I remember being told when I first installed FreeBSD 2.2.8 back
in February was that the 1023 limit that is the killer. My disk info
is
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 25446897 (12425 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
Kent
>
> Ciao,
> Sheldon.
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