Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:37:58 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: HD Disk Partitioning Error Message-ID: <38DD1596.5BEE5000@3-cities.com>
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I have been trying to convert one of my Win 2000 machines to
multi-boot FreeBSD. It is working partially. What I am seeing is
partition error messages at boot time such as
wd0s3: raw partition size != slice size
wd0s3: start 14410305, end 24643709, size 10233405
wd0s3c: start 14410305, end 30780539, size 16370235
wd0s3: truncating raw partition
Output from fdisk is
******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=2491 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=2491 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 63, size 4176837 (2039 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 259/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 4176900, size 10233405 (4996 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 260/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 896/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 14410305, size 10233405 (4996 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 897/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 24643710, size 15374205 (7506 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 1023/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
If I try to add information using fdisk and label, I get an "Illegal
Partition" message from the bios at boot followed by a hang. The drive
is one of the new Maxtor UDMA66 HD's and the latest cvsup'ed version
of 3.4-Stable. It was upgraded on 24 Mar 00 and installed. The mb is
an Abit BX6r2 with the Award Bios reflashed to support 40GB drives. At
this point, I have 4 primary partitions, which is the maximum allowed
by Win2000. The fdisk information for partition 3 is right but the
calculation in dmesg output is bogus. I have deleted everything but
the first fat partition and my FreeBSD partition and tried to add an
additional slice with fdisk. When I do this, the system ALWAYS hangs
at boot.
I have reinstalled FreeBSD into a larger partition 2, which lets me
function at this point.
The only really frustrating part of this is fdisk changing the active
partition to the FreeBSD one even though I tell it to leave everything
alone. This means that I have to boot to Win98 startup disk and fdisk
my active partition to partition 1, which lets me use the W2K boot
manager.
This system will be upgraded to 4.0-Stable as soon as I have CD's and
have access to cvsup but I would like to make it work as it stands.
At this point, I have given up on things I can permute and need
additional suggestions. Any ideas?
Kent
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