From owner-freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 18:11:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25E0A16A4CE; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:11:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.reppep.com (www.reppep.com [66.92.104.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E2E43D2D; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:11:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pepper@reppep.com) Received: from [10.0.1.101] (airport.reppep.com [66.92.104.202]) by www.reppep.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B59C2FDF4; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:12:19 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: pepper@mail.reppep.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200401200200.i0K20Osd024737@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200401200200.i0K20Osd024737@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:10:47 -0500 To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org From: Chris Pepper Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Subject: Re: i386/61603: sysinstall: wrong geometry guessed X-BeenThere: freebsd-i386@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: I386-specific issues for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:11:27 -0000 Further information: FreeBSD's fdisk comes up with these values, which don't correspond to sysinstall's guess or the values I copied from pfdisk to sysinstall to reinstall. fdisk comes up with the same values both with a non-booting system (booted from CD) and with a good system, booted normally from BootEasy. Chris Pepper >guest# fdisk >******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* >parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: >cylinders=77545 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > >Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 >parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: >cylinders=77545 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 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 11 (0x0b),(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) > start 63, size 12579777 (6142 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; > end: cyl 831/ head 239/ sector 63 >The data for partition 2 is: >sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 12579840, size 65575440 (32019 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 832/ head 0/ sector 1; > end: cyl 1023/ head 239/ sector 63 >The data for partition 3 is: > >The data for partition 4 is: > -- Chris Pepper: Rockefeller University: