Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:28:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition errors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980113202629.24708j-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801131605.KAA00412@gforce.bellsouth.net>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > wd2s1: raw partition size != slice size > > > wd2s1: start 63, end 32255, size 32193 > > > wd2s1c: start 63, end 1056383, size 1056321 > > > wd2s1: truncating raw partition > > > wd2s1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice [...] > This is what I suspected. The diskformat tutorial is what I used as my guide. > I used the /stand/sysinstall program as per the instructions in the tutorial. > I tried with the FBSD calculated disklabel, as well as specifying the geometry > that the BIOS reported. No luck in either case. Should I try again using the > command line instructions given in the tutorial? Hm, something must be miscalculating the gemoetry so badly that the disklabel numbers are out of bounds. Is there anything else on this disk? If not you might try dedicated mode. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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