Bug 171113 - bsdinstall(8): FreeBSD 9.1-beta1 installer refuses to partition flash medium
Summary: bsdinstall(8): FreeBSD 9.1-beta1 installer refuses to partition flash medium
Status: Open
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: 9.1-BETA1
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Keywords: install
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Reported: 2012-08-27 12:10 UTC by Elmar Stellnberger
Modified: 2022-10-13 17:48 UTC (History)
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Description Elmar Stellnberger 2012-08-27 12:10:02 UTC 
  When trying to boot the SDHC-flash installation medium and trying to install on PCMCIA CF /dev/da0 by the option 'use entire disc' of the automatic partitioning I get the following error message:
GEOM da0: geometry does not match label (64h, 33s != 255h, 63s).

If I try to invoke fdisk manually it quits with the following output:
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1963 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=1963 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:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 0, size 50000 (24 Meg), flag 80 (active)
	beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 1;
	end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2013-02-28 09:34:31 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-sysinstall

Over to maintainer(s).
Comment 2 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-12-31 08:00:30 UTC 
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Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

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