Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:09:49 -0800 (PST) From: rafael@pyramid.com To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: bin/5732: 2.2.5 Won't install using partition created by OS/2 Fdisk. LBA mode is turn on. Message-ID: <199802130109.RAA15568@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 5732 >Category: bin >Synopsis: 2.2.5 Won't install using partition created by OS/2 Fdisk. LBA mode is turn on. >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: high >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Feb 12 17:10:03 PST 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: Rafael Chang >Organization: >Release: 2.2.5 >Environment: >Description: I am using OS/2's boot manager. I created a partition under OS/2 fdisk program. The partition which I created is of size 500MB. After booting FreeBSD using the boot disk, I changed the label of the partition to 165 which is for FreeBSD. Then I continue to use this partition with the default value, but got error message saying the this partition is to big for /root. It seems that default value should take the 500MB created under OS/2 fdisk( and OS/2 boot manager), and create default size for /usr, /, /var, and others. The LBA mode has been selected on the BIOS. FreeBSD reports the C/H/S for primary IDE master/slave with proper LBA translation. But the C/H/S value for secondary IDE master does not appear to be translated properly. It still report the cylinder size of 49XX for cylinder for Fujitsu 2.5 GB drive. I double checked that the option of LBA are properly turned on. I tried to install on bootable disk partition from the primary IDE master/slave, and secondary IDE master. They all fail with same error message, saying that the partition is too big. The configuration of my hard drives are as follow: Primary IDE Master: Fujitsu 2GB. Primary IDE Slave: Maxtor 1.6 GB. Secondary IDE Master: Fujitsu 2.5 GB. Any suggestion as to how to solve this problem of partition size too big. I would like to keep OS/2 boot manager. >How-To-Repeat: Use OS/2 fdisk and OS/2 boot manager. Turn LBA mode on BIO. >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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