Summary: | sysinstall(8): wrong geometry guessed | ||
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Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Chris Pepper <pepper> |
Component: | bin | Assignee: | freebsd-sysinstall (Nobody) <sysinstall> |
Status: | Closed Overcome By Events | ||
Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | 4.9-STABLE | ||
Hardware: | Any | ||
OS: | Any |
Description
Chris Pepper
2004-01-20 02:00:24 UTC
Further information: FreeBSD's fdisk comes up with these values, which don't correspond to sysinstall's guess or the values I copied from pfdisk to sysinstall to reinstall. fdisk comes up with the same values both with a non-booting system (booted from CD) and with a good system, booted normally from BootEasy. Chris Pepper >guest# fdisk >******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* >parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: >cylinders=77545 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > >Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 >parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: >cylinders=77545 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 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 11 (0x0b),(DOS or Windows 95 with 32 bit FAT) > start 63, size 12579777 (6142 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; > end: cyl 831/ head 239/ sector 63 >The data for partition 2 is: >sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 12579840, size 65575440 (32019 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 832/ head 0/ sector 1; > end: cyl 1023/ head 239/ sector 63 >The data for partition 3 is: ><UNUSED> >The data for partition 4 is: ><UNUSED> -- Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/> Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/> State Changed From-To: open->feedback Hello Chris, Can you tell me whether this problem still persists in later versions of FreeBSD? Thanks in advance Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-i386->remko grab the pr State Changed From-To: feedback->suspended Feedback was not received, but my belief from looking through the mailing lists is that this is probably still a problem. Responsible Changed From-To: remko->freebsd-bugs Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->randi Taking this. State Changed From-To: suspended->open This is still a problem. Responsible Changed From-To: randi->brucec Grab. Responsible Changed From-To: brucec->freebsd-sysinstall Back to the pool. sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing. sysinstall has been replaced by bsdinstall in FreeBSD 9.x. Closing. |