Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:11:49 +0200 From: "radu.florin" <radu.florin@free.fr> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Disk geometry Message-ID: <oprv0e5zum43dlnc@smtp.free.fr>
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Hi, I'm testing the coexistence of Win95, Linux Slackware and Free BSD 5.1 on a single physical disk PC ( P133, 16Mo RAM, 3 GO dd). Just the time to see if I can boot to the OS I want to use. Then to install on a PC with 384 Mo RAM a 40 Go dd On the P133 I'm testing, all is working fine with Win and Slack. Slack boot lets me go to Win or Linux without any problem. I installed also a minimal FreeBSD in good conditions. But I have no access at it... Slack boot don't see it. And if I accept-when installing Free BSD - one of his boots (MBR or SB) I can't have no Win, no Slack, neither FreeBSD. It displays the usual choice F1, F2... but no one works (just screaming). It seems to be a dd geometry problem. The sfdsk of Slack, displays so the partitions: -------------------------------------------------------- Disk /dev/hda: 785 cylinders, 128 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 4128768 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/hda1 0+ 207 208- 838624+ 6 FAT16 end: (c,h,s) expected (207,127,63) found (1023,13,63) partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk /dev/hda2 208 216- 9- 32634 82 Linux swap start: (c,h,s) expected (208,0,1) found (1023,255,63) end: (c,h,s) expected (216,11,63) found (1023,14,63) partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk /dev/hda3 * 216+ 470- 254- 1023907+ a5 FreeBSD start: (c,h,s) expected (216,12,1) found (1023,255,63) end: (c,h,s) expected (470,4,63) found (1023,14,63) partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk /dev/hda4 470+ 785- 316- 1272442+ 83 Linux start: (c,h,s) expected (470,5,1) found (1023,255,63) end: (c,h,s) expected (785,79,63) found (1023,14,63) partition ends on cylinder 1023, beyond the end of the disk /dev/hda5 216+ 281- 66- 262144 /dev/hda6 281+ 289- 9- 32768 /dev/hda7 289+ 354- 66- 262144 /dev/hda8 354+ 419- 66- 262144 /dev/hda9 419+ 470- 51- 204707+ --- -- ------------------------------------------------- --------------------- I don't have valuable data on this system, so I can wipe of all the OS and start to re-partition. In that case what tool to use ? The old MS fdisk ? Is it necessary to choose some particular parameters ? Thank you for a suggestion, Florin Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
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