hi all,

sysinst seems to find the bios geometry fine, but specifying the partition
(not disklabel) in cylinders leads to confusing data at least.  sysinst
says my first partition ends on cyl 521, fdisk says end of 519.

This leads to two other observations:
1) When sysinst says a partition ends on cyl 521, I don't know if that
means the beginning or end of said cylinder.  Could this be made less
ambiguous?

2) Why can't the output in sysinst look a bit more like fdisk?  That way
I'd know exactly what I'm working with.

output follows from sysinst, fdisk, and dmesg.

Erich Enke
Wheaton College Science Division

*********** Output from sysinst (hand-typed) *********

This disk matches the following BIOS disk:

BIOS # cylinders  heads   sectors
------ ---------- ------- -------
0      1022       128     63

Now, using part of the disk, specified in cylinders, I get:

Edit your DOS partition table.  The highlighted partition is the currently
active partition.  The partition table currently looks like:

   Start(cyl) Size(cyl)  End(cyl)   Kind
   ---------- ---------- ---------- ----
0: 0          520        521        DOS FAT16, >32M
1:                                  unused
2:                                  unused
3:                                  unused

************** Output from fdisk *********************

NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 8184 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1022 heads: 128 sectors/track: 63 (8064 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: sysid 6 (Primary 'big' DOS, 16-bit FAT (> 32MB))
    start 63, size 4193217 (2047 MB), flag 0x80
	beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
	end: cylinder  519, head 127, sector 63
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>

************* Output from dmesg ***********************

    matt@pilot.local:/other/kobj/i386/INSTALL
cpu0: family 6 model 5 step 2
cpu0: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) (686-class)
total memory = 127 MB
avail memory = 113 MB
using 1659 buffers containing 6636 KB of memory
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfd821
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7190 (rev. 0x02)
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7191 (rev. 0x02)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: memory space enabled
vendor 0x5333 product 0x8904 (VGA display, revision 0x01) at pci1 dev 1 function 0 not configured
pcib0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0
pcib0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7110 (rev. 0x02)
pciide0 at pci0 dev 2 function 1: Intel 82371AB IDE controller (PIIX4) (rev. 0x01)
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <WDC AC24200B>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 4028 MB, 8184 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8249472 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2
pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data transfers)
pciide0: secondary channel wired to compatibility mode
pciide0: secondary channel ignored (disabled)
vendor 0x8086 product 0x7112 (USB serial bus, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 2 function 2 not configured
vendor 0x8086 product 0x7113 (miscellaneous bridge, revision 0x02) at pci0 dev 2 function 3 not configured
fxp0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0: Intel i82557 Ethernet, rev 5
fxp0: interrupting at irq 15
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:04:ac:ee:9b:06, 10/100 Mb/s
inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 0
inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
isa0 at pcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
pc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: color
pc0: console
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
biomask 7fe5 netmask ffe5 ttymask ffe7
md0: internal 2048K image area
wd0: no disk label
boot device: fd0
root on md0a dumps on md0b
root file system type: ffs
wd0: no disk label
wd0: no disk label
wd0: no disk label
wd0: no disk label
wd0: no disk label
wd0: no disk label
wd0: no disk label
wd0: no disk label
wd0: no disk label
wd0: no disk label
wd0: no disk label
wd0: no disk label
wd0: no disk label
wd0: no disk label