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.
Yes it is, all of it (or, all of it that I could withot going 'dangerously dedicated'). I have never had any intention of putting Windows on this disk. I think W98 just assumed it 'cos it was the primary master. >The slice editor in sysinstall shows this for > > ad1: > > > > Offset Size(ST) End Name PType > > Desc Subtype Flags > > > > 0 63 62 - > > 12 unused 0 > > 63 156296322 156296384 ad1s1 8 > > freebsd 165 > > 156296385 5103 156301487 - > > 12 unused 0 > > And this agrees that the second slice is almost non-existent -- 2.5Mb -- > certainly not enough for windows. No. But Windows is runing quite happily on ad0 (or "c:\" :-) > > I wonder whether you had the BIOS re-detect the disks after the swap. > Maybe the BIOS still thinks the size is that of the disk previously in that > position. And sysinstall and windows are both confused by the near zero > apparent size of the windows partition. No, the BIOS knows where the disks are, autodetects with no problem, and the defaults it offers match whats on the disk label (I mean the physical, paper label on the metal disk housing!) - and Windows is fine on the other disk - the problem is, really, that there shouldn't be a windows partition on _this_ disk at all. > > What do you believe is the total disk capacity? 80Gb, nominally. su-2.05b# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad1s1a 989M 415M 496M 46% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev /dev/ad1s1e 496M 5.0M 451M 1% /tmp /dev/ad1s1f 69G 13G 51G 20% /usr /dev/ad1s1d 496M 136M 320M 30% /var procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc [cut - the rest is about ad0] > Since the slice 2 size is less than 32Mb then sysinstall knows that it > can't really have a sysid of 14. If you say so! It knows more than me about disk geometry and so on, I guess. 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? The fact is I really don't understand in any kind of detail how this stuff works - I'm just trying to ask the right questions... Thanks a lot for taking the time to think about this, I appreciate it. Cheers, Ben _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
