On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:38, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 05:20, Ben Paley wrote:
> > But seriously, does any of this suggest a course of action to you? I'm
> > planning to try the "set sysid to 0" plan... what if that doesn't work?
>
> Sounds like an excellent idea. Perhaps wind
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 10:38, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 05:20, Ben Paley wrote:
> > But seriously, does any of this suggest a course of action to you? I'm
> > planning to try the "set sysid to 0" plan... what if that doesn't work?
>
> Sounds like an excellent idea. Perhaps wind
On Tuesday 08 June 2004 05:20, Ben Paley wrote:
> On Monday 07 June 2004 16:44, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> > Notice the size recorded for this slice is zero.
> >
> > If the "cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63" is somewhere
> > near the reasonable possible geometry description then virtually
> > t
On Monday 07 June 2004 16:44, Malcolm Kay wrote:
>
> Notice the size recorded for this slice is zero.
>
> If the "cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63" is somewhere
> near the reasonable possible geometry description then virtually
> the entire disk has been allocated to the FreeBSD slice.
On Monday 07 June 2004 04:01, Ben Paley wrote:
> su-2.05b# fdisk ad1
> *** Working on device /dev/ad1 ***
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
>
> Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> par
On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:10:48 +0100
Ben Paley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is very scary, but thanks for the advice. I had some more advice
> (not sure if it went to the list or not) to try setting the second
> partition as unused (sysid=0), so I might try that first to see
> whether I can avo
On Monday 07 June 2004 11:17, Dan Strick wrote:
>
> Partition 2 (sysid 14, start 156296385) is bogus. I don't have a clue as
> to how it might have been created.
I *guess* it was the W98 installer - if you boot into DOS and invoke setup.exe
it's fairly polite, but if you boot from the cdrom, w
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 19:31:48 +0100, Ben Paley wrote:
>>
> ...
>
> *** Working on device /dev/ad1 ***
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
>
> Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> paramete
On Sunday 06 June 2004 13:04, Dan Strick wrote:
> Perhaps something changed the partition type code in the MBR partition
> table on your FreeBSD disk. Do "fdisk ad1" to display the MBR partition
> table. The FreeBSD slice should say:
>
> sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
>
> If it says any
On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 12:13:17 +0100, Ben Paley wrote:
>>
> I wanted to have FreeBSD on my first drive and Win98 on the second, but
> of course windows doesn't like being on the second disk, and began
> "preparing" my first drive which already had FreeBSD on it! Well, I
> swapped the drives over, put
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