Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 11:41:22 +0200 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: sysinstall Q wrt disk geometry Message-ID: <199608150941.LAA14164@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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I installed (tried to) 0801-SNAP on a 1 GB Fujitsu (1033 64 32) recently and since it's the third drive I have problem booting it from a bootmanager. I seems that OSBS20B8 sees the partition but doesn't find an operating system when booting it. (OSBS20B8 writes a drive number in front of the partition found and it sees any partition on all three drives). What I wonder is if sysinstall (fdisk) has changed policy recently wrt disk geometry. Does it now silently use 'faked' geometry figures instead of the 'true' geometry? In former sysinstalls I can remeber that I got a warning to use the 'G' option but this time (I may be wrong) I don't remeber having seen this warning. Instead it seemed to me that fdisk silently assumed 1033 64 32 instead of leaving me a chance to decide which geometry to use. As a result of this it looks like OSBS20B8 assuming the 'true' geometry it obtained from the adaptec bios while the disk is fdisked with the faked geometry. --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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