On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 3:24 AM, Harald Bjoroy <mailto:harald@bitcon.no>
wrote:
> 
> I only extended the C partition size-information by 8064 sectors.
> 
> I believe I did this right, but I might have done a typo in disktab,
> also I am not that familiar with disktab, so I could have done something
> wrong here. I only intend to use the c partition for this disk, so I
> have set the size of a partition to something near 180000 sectors in
> size, all the other partitions (apart from the c partition) begin at
> (the same 180000 sector) with a size of 0.
> 
> But anyway: The system should complain with an error message, not a
> freeze!
> 
> Also remember; wd1 is not mounted, the system freezes whenever NetBSD
> learns that I am thinking about the disk.
> 

I did not want to mention this with out more info but,
the c partition under NetBSD is not the DOS c partition.
Look at my 4GM Seagate disklabel 
leopard# disklabel -r wd0
# /dev/rwd0d:
type: ST506
disk: puma
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 15
sectors/cylinder: 945
cylinders: 8894
total sectors: 8404830
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:    99225   868455      4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  919 -
1023)
  b:   241920   967680        swap                        # (Cyl. 1024 -
1279)
  c:  7536375   868455      unused        0     0         # (Cyl.  919 -
8893)
  d:  8404830        0      unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
8893)
  e:   967680  1209600      4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 1280 -
2303)
  f:  5259870  2177280      4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 2304 -
7869)
  g:   967680  7437150      4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 7870 -
8893)
  h:   868455       63       MSDOS                        # (Cyl.    0*-
919)

c and d are reserved for accounting purposes.

c is the part of the disk used by NetBSD
d is the whole disk.

I have a DOS partition C: at Cyl. 0-919
and my root partition fits within the first 1024 cyls because
of BIOS limitations.
Note that I wanted access to that DOS partition from netbsd
so I used h to map the DOS C: partition.
The maximum number of partitions is eight, of which six you can
use.
So did you make a valid disklabel?

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