Subject: Re: Booting an extended partition using NetBSD
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakheshster@gmail.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/06/2006 06:11:39
> Yes, but what about sector 37817010 ?

# dd if=/dev/rwd0d skip=37817010 count=1 |hexdump -C
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
00000000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
*
000001b0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0f  |................|
000001c0  ff ff 82 0f ff ff 3f 00  00 00 bf ff 07 00 00 a2  |......?.........|
000001d0  01 20 05 82 7f 81 fe ff  07 00 80 80 56 00 00 00  |. ..........V...|
000001e0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |................|
000001f0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 55 aa  |..............U.|
00000200
512 bytes transferred in 0.001 secs (512000 bytes/sec)


> There is also a minor inconsistency in when the various sector numbers
> are counted from (and I haven't hand-checked those, but fdisk doesn't
> seem to be confused.

Thanks for explaining the layout. :)

If fdisk doesnt seem to be confused, then what could be the problem?

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