Subject: Re: NetBSD installation
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/09/2001 20:53:51
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:21:48PM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:
> >
> > However when booting up from WinNT, PartitionInfo (part of
> > Powerquest's PartitionMagic) reported error:
> >
> > The EndCylinder is past the end of the drive (it is 5606 and should be
> > 5605).

> fdisk -u wd0 will allow you to change the CHS of the partition, without
> changing its LBA. But make sure PartitionInfo is rigth before :)

I let PartitionInfo "fix" my CHS, and though now the CHS information
makes no sense -- both of the partitions that start after 2G have the
exact same CHS -- it doesn't seem to hurt anything on my modern
laptop. (I use the NT boot selector on Windows 2000.) I guess the test
as to whether the "fix" makes sense would be to try to boot with the
same drive under an old 386 BIOS.

Frederick