Quoting Frederick Bruckman (26-Sep-01 16:08:02):

> On 26 Sep 2001, Georges Heinesch wrote:

>> But the best is Frederick's data (also an early posting in this
>> thread):

> I'd like to remind you, that this doesn't indicate a bug in NetBSD.

No, I know.

> That partition table was "fixed" by PartitionMagic -- from the very
> company that made the tool that's complaining about NetBSD's MBR.

Well, PM was complaining because the size of the last partition
(NetBSD) was too high. I corrected it manually using fdisk. This
worked fine.This is how the disk looks now:

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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 15 (Ext. partition - LBA)
    start 16065, size 81931500 (40005 MB), flag 0x0
    beg: cylinder    1, head   0, sector  1
    end: cylinder 1023, head 254, sector 63
1: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 81947565, size 8112825 (3961 MB), flag 0x0
    beg: cylinder 1023, head 254, sector 63
    end: cylinder 1023, head 254, sector 63
2: sysid 1 (Primary DOS with 12 bit FAT)
    start 63, size 16002 (7 MB), flag 0x0
    beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
    end: cylinder    0, head 254, sector 63
3: <UNUSED>
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However I still have 2 questions:

1. Why does the BIOS always report 1023 as max. cylinder?

2. I cannot resize the extended partition (0:) over the first
   partition (2:). For some reason, PM doesn't allow me to move the
   extended partition below cylinder 1, while the first partition (and
   also all other partitions on other disks I partitionned so far)
   always start at cylinder 0.

   Have a look at this:

   http://www.geohei.lu/pm_before.jpg
   http://www.geohei.lu/pm_after.jpg

   I can delete X, move all 3 logical drives inside the xtended
   partition to the right, reduce the size of the extended partition
   on the left and make Z bigger. Z starts at cylinder 0.

   However I cannot delete Z and move the extended partition over Z to
   the left. The leftmost cylinder I get with the extended partition
   is cylinder 1.

   How come?

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