Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:57:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: darrylo@sr.hp.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <199611252057.NAA23293@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199611241959.LAA00651@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Nov 24, 96 11:59:10 am
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> I would like to also see that corrected/changed to: > The data for partition 3 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 0, size 2097152 (1024 Meg), flag 80 > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0; > end: cyl 1023/ sector 32/ head 63 > > > Or atleast make size == cyl * sec * head (ie 1024*64*255 == 16711680) > my reasoning is that any third party fdisk program that sees the current > bogus table likes to try and ``fix it'' and usually ends up doing quite > the wrong thing : -(. This is bogus. Why can't I just ioctl the (unpartitioned) raw disk device and ask it? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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