In message <20020322180622.GA18111@student.physik.uni-mainz.de>
          Sebastian Maus <maus@uni-mainz.de> wrote:

> * Peter Bell <peter@bellfamily.org.uk> wrote (20020321 21:16):
> > In message <20020321190824.J508-100000@furtle.home>
> >           James Holtom <jholtom@furtle.org> wrote:
> [snip]
> > > I used !HForm (2.52 01 Dec 1999) and allowed it to use longfilenames.
> > > HForm says the disc is 16383/16/63 C/H/S, but with LBA revises this to
> > > 29795/16/63. I formatted the RISC OS partition as 13315 cylinders.
> > > Unfortunately bb_netbsd thinks I've got -3328 cylinders running from 0
> > > to -3329... argh... I haven't let it proceed to mash my disc...
> > When I run bb_netbsd, I get 0--3977 cylinders.  Since I haven't got
> > anything on the drive I didn't care so just went ahead.  bb_netbsd
> > completes *very* quickly.
> 
> It does not do /that/ much.

Okay, that's as I suspected.

> > > I am wondering if:
> > > a) the disc is too big for it
> > I guess that this might be correct.
> 
> In a certain sense, yes.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > Can someone tell me what to do / reassure me 'it will just work'...?
> > Not me.  I'm just as lost as you!
> 
> It just worked here. RISC OS 4, long filenames, 4 GB IDE disc. Same
> negative figures in bb_riscbsd.
> I cannot guarantee it will work on your disc. And before I did that
> experiment, I backed up everything on the RISC OS part of my disc.
> 
> > > I note from the archives that there were issues with the bootloader, but
> > > I haven't got that far yet, and didn't see anything about disc
> > > partitioning :-(
> > !BtNetBSD reports 'Bad disklabel' on my disc.
> 
> You' ve not run bb_riscbsd ;-)

Ah, bb_riscbsd as opposed to bb_netbsd?  I shall have to go and
search.

-- 
Peter Bell - peter@bellfamily.org.uk