Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:59:45 -0600 (CST) From: Anthony Kimball <alk@pobox.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad disk label Message-ID: <14430.17326.720254.530537@avalon.east> References: <14426.27760.434607.23832@avalon.east> <86224.945687769@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Quoth Sheldon Hearn on Mon, 20 December:
:
:
: On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:03:32 CST, Anthony Kimball wrote:
:
: > This disk is working just fine, but I can't boot from it, as the
: > loader won't read the slice 3 file systems. How can I fix the
: > beginning/ending sector coordinates?
:
: As far as I know, this is still a limitation of FreeBSD -- our boot
: blocks and/or loader (not sure) don't work for partitions beyond the 1GB
: limit.
Strange -- I boot wd0s3a just fine, but not wd1s3a. I eventually
repartitioned wd1 to look just like wd0 (or as much like it as
possible, as shown below) but I still can't boot from wd1s3a.
******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1582 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=1582 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 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 63, size 4192902 (2047 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 260/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 130,(Linux swap or Solaris x86)
start 4192965, size 273105 (133 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 261/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 277/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 14795865, size 10618965 (5185 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 921/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 131,(Linux filesystem)
start 4466070, size 10329795 (5043 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 278/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 920/ sector 63/ head 254
******* Working on device /dev/rwd1 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1653 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=1653 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 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 63, size 4192902 (2047 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 260/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 130,(Linux swap or Solaris x86)
start 4192965, size 273105 (133 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 261/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 277/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 14795865, size 11759580 (5741 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 921/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 131,(Linux filesystem)
start 4466070, size 10329795 (5043 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 278/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 920/ sector 63/ head 254
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