On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 03:51:22PM +0100, David Wetzel wrote:
> orange# fdisk sd0
> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> cylinders: 8387 heads: 5 sectors/track: 212 (1060 sectors/cylinder)
> 
> BIOS disk geometry:
> cylinders: 1024 heads: 64 sectors/track: 32 (2048 sectors/cylinder)
> 
> Partition table:
> 0: <UNUSED>
> 1: <UNUSED>
> 2: <UNUSED>
> 3: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
>     start 212, size 8890008 (4340 MB), flag 0x80
>         beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
>         end: cylinder 1023, head 255, sector 63
> 
> I tried various BIOS disk geometries. What can it be?

Actually your BIOS geometry and partition infos don't match.
(partition ends at head 255/sect63 but you only have 64 head and 32 sects ???).
You should at last adjust this (or let fdisk do it: just start fdisk -u sd0,
say you want to change partition 3 and press enter to accept default values).

But the start is not aligned on a cylinder boundary, this may cause problems.
You may want to 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd0d bs=64k count=10' (just 
to be sure) and reinstall.
The NetBSD installation tool should find a BIOS geometry by itself and ask if
it's correct. It is in most cases.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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