Hi.

Quoting Georges Heinesch (09-Sep-01 18:21:48):

> I partitioned my harddisk following the NetBSD-i386 installation
> program. The installation worked fine, and the NetBSD is now
> properly installed.

> 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).

> It seems to be a problem with the NetBSD partitioning tool.

> - Did somebody also encounter this problem?
> - How can I get the MBR correct again?

> TIA

Ok, I reformulate the questions somewhat:

1. Is there anything wrong with this fdisk output?

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   NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
   cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)

   BIOS disk geometry:
   cylinders: 1023 heads: 255 sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)

   Partition table:
   0: sysid 23 (OS/2 BM: hidden IFS)
       start 63, size 4192902 (2047 MB), flag 0x0
       beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
       end: cylinder  260, head 254, sector 63
   1: sysid 15 (Ext. partition - LBA)
       start 8385930, size 25350570 (12378 MB), flag 0x0
       beg: cylinder  522, head   0, sector  1
       end: cylinder 1023, head 254, sector 63
   2: sysid 27 (unknown)
       start 4192965, size 4192965 (2047 MB), flag 0x80
       beg: cylinder  261, head   0, sector  1
       end: cylinder  521, head 254, sector 63
   3: <UNUSED>
   ----- cut here -----

2. This is the PartitionInfo output of the NetBSD partition:

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   Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
     ucEndCylinder (5606) must be less than 5606.
   Info: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
     ucEndHead expected to be 254, not 149.
       16,065  0  00  1  1  1  07  1023  254  63  16,128  20,482,812
   Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
     Actual values are:
       16,065  0  00  1  1  1  07  1275  254  63  16,128  2,0482,812
   ----- cut here -----

   Here, some things don't work properly.
   2 problems show up:

   1. the EndCyl is 1 cyl too high exceeding the physical end of the
      drive.

   2. The head count seems to be wrong (149 instead of 254).

   Questions:

   1. Is PartitionInfo reading this info from the MBR?

   2. Where is fdisk gathering its information from?
      (also from the MBR?)

   3. Can I safely fix the problem with a Winxx tool?
      (if yes, which one?)

This problem only occured after I installed NetBSD at the very end of
this 43 GB drive. I need to get rid of the problem in order to
resize/move partitions ahead of the NetBSD partition, which is at the
very end of the drive (the last 4 GB).

Many thanks!

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