Bug 14974
| Summary: | In RELENG_3, fdisk reports sizes incorrectly | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | shimon <shimon> |
| Component: | conf | Assignee: | John Baldwin <jhb> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
Is this problem still present in 4.1 release or RELENG_4? -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ State Changed From-To: open->feedback jhb asked for feedback. Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->jhb John will want the feedback. State Changed From-To: feedback->closed The described behavior is not actually a bug, rather it appears to be a quirk of the PC BIOS due to the limiations of the MBR slice table. |
# fdisk i2o0 Nov 18 07:41:57 brass /boot/kernel.i2o: i2o0: cannot find label (no disk label) ******* Working on device /dev/ri2o0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=43391 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=43391 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 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 2048, size 88864768 (43391 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 1/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 383/ sector 32/ head 63 <<--------<< This is WRONG! The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> How-To-Repeat: Create a slice over 2GB in size