Subject: Re: kernel disklabel messages
To: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>
From: None <rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/17/1998 17:35:32
First, this is an x86 only issue; it is my doing to get more info for
sysinst. I guess there is a glitch in scsi sd that causes it to call
disklabel three times (per disk?). I'll look for this unless someone
else gets to it first.
Someone else reported this, too. What perplexes me the most is that
this reports a BIOS geometry of 256 heads. I don't know of any scheme
that should report this:
1. Do you have only netbsd on this disk?
2. What does fdisk say.
3. How did you initialize this disk.
Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se> writes:
> disklabel: BIOS sees chs 3712/21/107 as 520/256/63
> disklabel: BIOS sees chs 4982/16/63 as 622/128/63
> boot device: sd0
> root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
> disklabel: BIOS sees chs 3712/21/107 as 520/256/63
> disklabel: BIOS sees chs 3712/21/107 as 520/256/63