Subject: Re: Installing & Booting NetBSD 1.2 under SVR4
To: None <bsd@blkhole.resun.com>
From: Doug Lee <douglee@douglee.gts.org>
List: port-amiga
Date: 06/17/1997 13:05:58
:My question now is that I'm getting two warnings"
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:warning found rdb->secspercyl(1530) != rdb->nsectors(81) * rdb->nheads(19)
:warning lp->d_sparespercyl (9) not multiple of lp->d_ntracks(19)
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:It then offers to install on that drive.
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:My question is: Do I care about the discrepency? It would be a really bad
:thing if NetBSD ended up scribbling on the rest of my HD due to the warning.
:
:Looking at things, rdb->secspercyl should probably be 1539, with
:lp->d_sparespercy (171). But what do I know?
I found the same problem when I installed a Quantum Fireball_TM3200S drive.
HDToolbox reports 5 heads 159 blocks per track, 793 blocks per cylinder.
I changed this to 1 head 793 blocks per track and the warning disappears.
The disadvantage is that HDToolbox will destroy your partitioning
information in the process. Since this was a new empty drive running in parallel
with my old one, I was free to experiment and just changed it.
If you were to write down the start and end cyl information for your
existing partitions, you might be able to re-enter them after changing the
drive type information. I suspect you would have to re-calculate the start
and end cyl numbers to compensate for the changed drive geometry.
I didn't try this myself and don't suggest you do this unless everything is
backed up or you are very adventurous :-).
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