Subject: Re: OS Loader
To: Christoph Leuzinger <christoph.leuzinger@westworks.ch>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/19/2000 19:04:33
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:26:54PM +0200, Christoph Leuzinger wrote:
> Am 18 Oct 2000, um 17:04 hat Mipam geschrieben:
> 
> > Assuming you installed the netbsd bootloader correctly i think something
> > might be wrong with your partition table. Can you send an ouput of
> > fdisk of that disk?
> 
> Disk 1 (Win98,Linux,NetBSD):
> ============================
> Partition table:
> 0: sysid 6 (Primary 'big' DOS, 16-bit FAT (> 32MB))
>     start 63, size 4192902 (2047 MB), flag 0x80
>         beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
>         end: cylinder  261, head   0, sector  1
> 1: sysid 130 (Linux swap or Prime or Solaris)
>     start 4194288, size 277200 (135 MB), flag 0x0
>         beg: cylinder  261, head  21, sector  1
>         end: cylinder  278, head  86, sector  1
> 2: sysid 131 (Linux native)
>     start 4472496, size 8164800 (3986 MB), flag 0x0
>         beg: cylinder  278, head 102, sector  1
>         end: cylinder  786, head 162, sector  1
> 3: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
>     start 12638304, size 14133368 (6901 MB), flag 0x0
>         beg: cylinder  786, head 178, sector  1
>         end: cylinder 1023, head 255, sector 63
> 
> Disk 2 (Win98,NetBSD):
> ============================
> Partition table:
> 0: sysid 11 (Primary DOS with 32 bit FAT)
>     start 63, size 4192902 (2047 MB), flag 0x80
>         beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
>         end: cylinder  260, head 254, sector 63
> 1: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
>     start 10253376, size 15180852 (7412 MB), flag 0x0
>         beg: cylinder  678, head  32, sector  1
>         end: cylinder 1023, head 255, sector 63
> 2: sysid 5 (Extended partition)
>     start 4192965, size 6699105 (3271 MB), flag 0x0
>         beg: cylinder  261, head   0, sector  1
>         end: cylinder  677, head 254, sector 63
> 3: <UNUSED>
> 
> So, that's it.

Hum, we also need the BIOS geometry. NetBSD's fdisk gives it.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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