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Subject: bin/5732: 2.2.5 Won't install using partition created by OS/2 Fdisk. LBA mode is turn on.
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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:

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