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 > > 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. >
I now have a clearer impression of the situation. I had erroneously understood windows was actually running from that slice and that it must have really been bigger than it appeared. > > 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 windows is seeing the slice as a fs it knows about but finds it unformatted, so is offering to do that for you. So maybe setting sysid to zero (which I think registers as an undefined slice) will stop windows making the offer. Whatever else I can't see how this would make the situation worse. Good luck, Malcolm _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"