Date: 15 Jan 98 07:35:25 +0100 From: Glenn.Johnson@234-49-99.swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (Glenn Johnson) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition errors Message-ID: <c24_9801151042@swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk>
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>From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 07:56:00 1998 From: Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: partition errors > 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. > I did try dedicated mode. That was my first choice. Then I tried non-dedicated mode and that did not work either. The only way I could get a successful newfs was to have a small DOS partition on the drive; but then I got the error messages above. -- Glenn Johnson gljohns@bellsouth.net -- |Fidonet: Glenn Johnson 2:234/49.99 |Internet: Glenn.Johnson@234-49-99.swimsuit.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk | Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own. | | En annonce fra gateway-operatøren: | Unix-sysadm søger job. Henvendelse leifn@image.dk |
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