Quoting Manuel Bouyer (09-Sep-01 21:02:43):

> On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:21:48PM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:
>> 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?

> No. What's the output of fdisk ?

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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>
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>> - How can I get the MBR correct again?

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

Before I change something and regret it afterwards, I would like to
know exactly what goes on here.

What can I do to fix the problem?

If you need further details, please let me know.
(I have only one shot) ;)

Many thanks!

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