From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 2 10:25:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.skynet.be (trinity.skynet.be [195.238.2.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F9237BD5A for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:25:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [195.238.1.121] (brad.techos.skynet.be [195.238.1.121]) by trinity.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1984A126A0; Thu, 2 Mar 2000 19:25:29 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000302190648.A20429@internal> References: <20000302184212.A20215@internal> <20000302190648.A20429@internal> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 19:25:21 +0100 To: Andre Albsmeier From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: Crash on boot when disks are present? Cc: Andre Albsmeier , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:06 PM +0100 2000/3/2, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > You don;t have to shut it down. Simply do an 'fdisk daxxx' where xxx is > the drivenumber. Do it for all drives attached. One with 1023/256/63 is > enough to stop the boot process. Here's what I get on one of the devices: $ fdisk da1 ******* Working on device /dev/rda1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=10873 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=10873 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 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 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 16771797 (8189 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 16771860, size 157902885 (77101 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 255; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: I get the same for da2, and da3 is: $ fdisk da3 ******* Working on device /dev/rda3 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=8698 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=8698 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 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 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 139733307 (68229 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: Devices da4, da5, and da6 are the same logical units, but accessed through the other controller. I get the same information for them as I do for da1-3 (which is as it should be ;-). As far as I can tell, these shouldn't cause a problem for me booting, should they? I mean, the number of cylinders is very high, but the number of heads and sectors/track is right, I think. -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy ========================================================================= Brad Knowles, Sys. Arch., Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin Note: No Microsoft programs were used in the creation or distribution of this message. If you are using a Microsoft program to view this message, be forewarned that I am not responsible for any harm you may encounter as a result. See for details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message