yes, it's problem with bios,
you should set that by hand,
or you probably did that..

		ado

David Laight wrote:
>>>Synopsis:       fdisk does not use (report) correct hard drive BIOS geometry
> 
> 
>>On my old DELL XPS D266 (PII-266 MHz) and a hard drive of 8 GB,
>>'fdisk wd0' reports an invalid total numbers of sectors (2846
>>instead of something near 16514064):
> 
> 
>># fdisk wd0
>>Disk: /dev/rwd0d
>>NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
>>cylinders: 16383, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)
>>total sectors: 16514064
>>
>>BIOS disk geometry:
>>cylinders: 1022, heads: 255, sectors/tracks: 63 (16035 sectors/cylinder)
>>total sectors: 2846
> 
> 
> I suspect this is a buggy bios, since that sector count comes from
> a bios call done during system initialisation.
> 
> 'sysctl machdep.diskinfo' should report the values being used.
> 
> Maybe fdisk should use the disk size from the 'netbsd geometry'
> as the limit for the partitions.
> 
> 1.6.2 does no validatoon on the numbers at all...
> 
> 	David
> 

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