From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Jun 4 22:51:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA07515 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:51:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA07478 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 1996 22:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA05706; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 07:50:59 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA11670; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 07:50:59 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id HAA25458; Wed, 5 Jun 1996 07:41:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606050541.HAA25458@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: FreeBSD fdisk problem To: lrw118@mail.usask.ca (Luke Wadel) Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 07:41:51 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <31B5021F.31B4@mail.usask.ca> from Luke Wadel at "Jun 4, 96 08:42:23 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Luke Wadel wrote: > I tried installing FreeBSD 2.1 and later a snapshot of 2.2 on a Compaq > Presario 425, from CD-ROMs. I chose the novice installation, as I am new > to FreeBSD. After fdisking a primary partition, (hda4, as I recall), hda4 -- hmm, that's Linux. Nevermind... > upon reboot, loading the first MSDOS primary partition, a RAMDISK > suddenly would not work. Afterwards, when I ran CFDISK from a Linux > install, I was informed that there were errors in the partitioning, and > it refused to even run. These problems went away when DOS' FDISK deleted > the FreeBSD partition, and perhaps also some logical drives which were > corrupted, but they came back when retrying the FreeBSD installation. Unfortunately, you forgot to provide us with the detailed information required to track such a bug. As it stands, it's neither clear to us what happened nor reproducible in any way. The only chance to get help is to send us: . exact disk information (what disk? what BIOS geometry? did the FreeBSD installation recognize the BIOS geometry or did it guess wrong?), . the exact figures of the created failing fdisk table (either C/H/S values as well as the logical sector offset/length for each fdisk partition -- a hexdump of the entire master boot record would count as a sufficient replacement in case you are not able to send us these numbers). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)