In <konSsGG6LiYE8mzAUk@zelux6> Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de> writes:
>That's it. The Adaptec translates the geometry
>to a fake one with 32 sectors/track while the
>MBR partition entries are made for 63 s/t.
>The bad news is that you have to repartition
>and reformat your disk if you can't change this
>mapping in the Adaptec BIOS at least a bit.

I don't think a re-install is necessary. I had the same problem this
weekend, and I just corrected the MBR using fdisk, running from the
install floppy (that last bit seems important). I kept the start of
the NetBSD partition at the same sector number and then things worked.

>best regards
>Matthias

-Olaf.
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