Subject: Re: restorecd, fdisk problems on cobalt
To: None <eau@phear.org>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 12/30/2007 03:10:09
eau@phear.org wrote:

> I replaced the nfsroot/install/scripts/install* scripts by modified ones
> in order to change the partitioning.

How did you change them?

> the cobalt boot nicely but I keep getting this error from fdisk
> at the time it takes information from the hard drive (fdisk -S /dev/wd0)
>  and on each call to fdisk.
> 
> # fdisk -S /dev/wd0
> [1]   Trace/BPT trap          fdisk -S /dev/wd0

fdisk(8) has less sanity checks and it might get the error by
divide-by-zero if your disk has inconsistent geometry numbers in MBR.
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Izumi Tsutsui