* FUKAUMI Naoki <naoki@fukaumi.org> [020417 17:29]:
> At Wed, 17 Apr 2002 14:16:52 +0100,
> Rasputin wrote:
> > =FDISK==========================================

> > Partition table:
> > 0: sysid 6 (Primary 'big' DOS, 16-bit FAT (> 32MB))
> >     start 32, size 12000 (5 MB), flag 0x80
> > 	beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
> > 	end: cylinder   46, head   7, sector 32
> 
> sysid 4 is better. (not important)

Can we update the install.txt then?

If you like, I can send-pr() once I get it working ?

> > 1: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
> >     start 12033, size 250000 (122 MB), flag 0x0
> > 	beg: cylinder   47, head   0, sector  2
> > 	end: cylinder  977, head   7, sector 32
> 
> you can use 'start 12032'.
> 
> size 250000 is wrong.
>
>   978 * 8 * 32 (chs) = total sector is 250368
>   start 12033 + size 250000 = last sector is 262032 (wrong)
> 
> if you set start 12032, right size is 238336.

Brilliant, thanks a lot. This was giving me most trouble.

> > =DISKLABEL==========================================

> > 8 partitions:
> > #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> >   a:   235520       47     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0*- 920*)
> >   b:    14592   235776       swap                        # (Cyl.  921 - 977)
> >   c:   235520    12033     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.   47*- 967*)
> >   d:   250368        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 977)
> >   e:    12000       32      MSDOS                        # (Cyl.    0*- 46)

> partition a and e are overwrapped. a: offset 47 is wrong.
> (size and offset (start) is sector #, not cylinder #)

Aaaaah, right. That explains a hell of a lot.

> if you can erase all data, try to clear current fdisk/disklabel completely
>   $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd1d count=100
>                             ^^^^^ <- CF device name
> then create new disklabel.

Will do, I think I tried to force write a diskalbel based on install.txt
which I didn't really understand at the time. Possibly some bad data was
lying around in the label and causing the errors you mentioned?

> FYI
> 
> If you want to add MSDOS partition infomation to NetBSD disklabel,
> mbrlabel command is very useful.

Thanks very much for all replies - I'll retry this.

(Good luck with raising the dead, Chris)

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